{"id":36286,"date":"2022-05-24T15:26:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T19:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=36286"},"modified":"2022-05-24T15:26:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T19:26:57","slug":"ohio-state-highway-patrol-investigates-fatal-crash-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/ohio-state-highway-patrol-investigates-fatal-crash-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio State Highway Patrol Investigates Fatal Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/state-highway-patrol.jpg?w=250&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36287\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/state-highway-patrol.jpg?w=199&amp;ssl=1 199w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/state-highway-patrol.jpg?resize=160%2C73&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Defiance &#8211; The Defiance Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal crash that occurred on May 24, 2022, at approximately 10:43 A.M. The crash occurred on County Road 9 south of County Road C in Center Township, Williams County. Kevin D. Van Gussel, age 68, of Kendallville, Indiana, was driving a 2007 Nissan pickup northbound on County Road 9. Gary R. McCarty, agc 50, of Bryan, Ohio was driving a 2004 Harley motorcycle southbound on County Road 9. Mr. Van Gussel attempted to make a left turn into a private driveway when he turned in front of Mr. McCarty causing Mr. McCarty to strike Mr. Van Gussel&#8217;s vehicle. Mr. Van Gussel sustained minor injuries and was treated at the scene while Mr. McCarty succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced deceased on scene. Mr. McCarty was reportedly not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash, and drugs or alcohol are not suspected to be a factor.<br>County Road 9 was closed for about 2.5 hours; however, has since been reopened.<br>The Patrol was assisted by the Williams County Coroner, the Williams County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, Williams County EMS, Edgerton Fire, John&#8217;s Towing, and Body Works Towing.<br>The crash remains under investigation.<br>The Ohio State Highway Patrol reminds motorcyclists to always wear helmets while on motorcycles and for motorists to be vigilant during the motorcycle season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defiance &#8211; The Defiance Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal crash that occurred on May<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2301],"tags":[14588,12924,14580,14579,14586,14587,14582,14581,5669,14583,14585,14005,14584],"class_list":["post-36286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-body-works-towing","tag-bryan-ohio","tag-county-road-9","tag-county-road-c","tag-edgerton-fire","tag-johns-towing","tag-mr-mccarty","tag-mr-van-gussel","tag-ohio-state-patrol","tag-williams-county-coroner","tag-williams-county-ems","tag-williams-county-ohio","tag-williams-county-sheriffs-office"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/state-highway-patrol.jpg?fit=199%2C91&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-9rg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 08:27:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}