City: Elyria, Ohio
County: Lorain, Ohio
Date of Accident: October 3, 2013
Type of Accident: Motor vehicle Accident – 2006 International Tractor
Life care EMS transported a 51-year-old man who was injured to EMH Regional and police charged him with operating his vehicle without reasonable control as a result of an accident, which occurred on The Ohio Turnpike at Gate 145 in Elyria, Lorain, Ohio. Police reported that at approximately 2:55 pm on October 3, 2013, the man was driving a 2006 International tractor and entered the Ohio turnpike at Gate 145. He allegedly negotiated a curve at an unsafe speed and caused the tractor to overturn. Kidd’s towed the tractor.
Those accidents which involved tractor/semi-trailers amounted to 1,875 which resulted in injuries. Elyria, Lorain, Ohio whose population in 2011 was 3,520, suffered a total of 87 injury crashes that resulted in 135 injuries. Crashes that were caused by drivers traveling at unsafe speed in 2011 were 4, 778 that caused injuries. Accidents in which the vehicles overturned/rolled over and caused injuries, amounted to 27 in the category of first harmful event in unit of error. Accidents, which occurred when it was cloudy, were 18,575 which resulted in injuries.
If you’ve been injured in an Elyria, Eaton or Carlisle, Ohio, area accident, please call the Lorain County, Ohio, truck accident lawyers at Chester Law at 800-218-4243.