{"id":41420,"date":"2023-09-04T22:26:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T02:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=41420"},"modified":"2023-09-04T22:29:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T02:29:00","slug":"ohio-state-highway-patrol-investigating-fatal-crash-in-paulding-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/ohio-state-highway-patrol-investigating-fatal-crash-in-paulding-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio State Highway Patrol Investigating Fatal Crash in Paulding County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image 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\/2019\/12\/Emergency-Police-sheriff.jpg?w=225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27656\" style=\"width:225px\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Emergency-Police-sheriff.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Emergency-Police-sheriff.jpg?resize=560%2C315&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Emergency-Police-sheriff.jpg?resize=260%2C146&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Emergency-Police-sheriff.jpg?resize=160%2C90&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Paulding \u2013 The Van Wert Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol is currently investigating a fatal crash that occurred on CR103 south of CR142 in Paulding County, Paulding Township, at approximately 1:54 P.M. on September 4, 2023. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A bicycle, operated by Ross Erwin Myers, 12 years of age, of Paulding, was traveling southbound on CR103.&nbsp; A 2017 Chrysler Town and Country, operated by Cynthia K. Switzer, 45 years of age, of Paulding, was also southbound on CR103.&nbsp; Ms. Switzer failed to keep an assured clear distance ahead, striking the bicyclist in the rear.&nbsp; Myers was thrown from the bicycle and pronounced deceased at the scene.&nbsp; The crash remains under investigation at this time. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ohio State Highway Patrol was assisted on scene by the Paulding County Sheriff\u2019s Department, Paulding Police Department, Paulding EMS, Paulding County Coroner, and Gideon\u2019s Towing and Recovery. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paulding \u2013 The Van Wert Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol is currently investigating a fatal crash that occurred<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27656,"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":[6,2301],"tags":[19758,9507,19757,19756],"class_list":["post-41420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-general-news","tag-cynthia-k-switzer","tag-paulding-ohio","tag-ross-erwin-myers","tag-van-wert-post-of-the-ohio-state-highway-patrol"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Emergency-Police-sheriff.jpg?fit=600%2C338&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-aM4","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 03:44:37","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\/41420","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=41420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41421,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41420\/revisions\/41421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}