{"id":6705,"date":"2014-05-12T07:51:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T11:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=6705"},"modified":"2014-05-12T07:51:47","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T11:51:47","slug":"fatal-traffic-crash-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/fatal-traffic-crash-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal Traffic Crash Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/police-lights.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2159\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/police-lights-300x224.jpg?resize=300%2C224\" alt=\"police-lights\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a>Sherwood &#8211; The Defiance Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a one vehicle traffic crash that occurred on Coy Road south of Bradshaw Road in Delaware Township, Defiance County.<\/p>\n<p>Jarad J. Sharp, age 26, of Sherwood, OH was operating a 2001 Oldsmobile Aurora southbound on Coy Road. Mr. Sharp lost control of the vehicle as the roadway surface transitioned from pavement to gravel.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle traveled off the right side of the roadway striking a small ditch and overturned. Mr. Sharp was ejected from the vehicle and sustained fatal injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Two passengers in the vehicle sustained non-incapacitating injuries and were transported from the scene by Delaware Township EMS to the Defiance Regional Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>The passengers were Jedadiah L. Sharp, age 26, Sherwood, OH and Derrek A. Sharp, age 23, Blakeslee, OH. They were treated and released.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle occupants were not wearing seatbelts and alcohol use is a factor in the traffic crash.<\/p>\n<p>Assisting at the scene were the Defiance County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, Delaware Township Fire and EMS, ProMedica Air, and Rick&#8217;s Wrecker Service.<\/p>\n<p>The traffic crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sherwood &#8211; The Defiance Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a one vehicle traffic crash that occurred<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[6,11],"tags":[12,609,2363,2362,596,528],"class_list":["post-6705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-government-legal","tag-ohio","tag-patrol","tag-sharp","tag-sherwood","tag-state","tag-wreck"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-1K9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-27 10:14:09","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\/6705","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=6705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}