City: Ridge, Ohio
County: Van Wert, Ohio
Date of Accident: October 8, 2013
Type of Accident: Motor Vehicle Accident – 2003 Pontiac Grand Am
A 24 year old driver who was allegedly under the influence of alcohol crashed and an occupant of his vehicle sustained injuries following an accident that occurred in Ridge, Van Wert, Ohio, on October 8, 2013 at approximately 6:02 pm. Reports from the OSHP stated that he was driving a 1996 Ford Taurus midsize car east on State Route 116 approaching a series of curves. He allegedly failed to slow in the 35 mph speed zone for the curves. He was driving at 50 MPH and lost control after running off the right side in the berm. The vehicle continued through a ditch and into the field, hitting a row of pine trees then struck the ditch again. Middlepoint EMS transported the injured woman, 23 year old Stephany N. Stephenson of Lima, Ohio, to Van Wert County Hospital. The driver was charged and 2A’s transported the vehicle.
Accidents in which the drivers were under the influence of drugs, alcohol or medication amounted to 5,173 which resulted in injuries. Ridge had a population of 3,114. In Ohio in 2012, Ridge, Van Wert, Ohio suffered 4 injury crashes, which resulted in 21 injuries. Accidents in which vehicles struck ditches amounted to 2,164, which caused injuries in 2011. In Ohio in 2010, accidents, which occurred on shoulder, amounted to 9,141, of which 2,371 resulted in injuries. Vehicles that were involved in accidents which the drivers failed to control amounted to 10,478 which caused injuries.
If you’ve been injured in a Ridge, Liberty, or York, Ohio, accident, please call the Van Wert County, Ohio car accident lawyers at Chester Law Group at 800-218-4243.