City: Grand Prairie, Ohio
County: Marion, Ohio
Date of Accident: October 2, 2013
Type of Accident: Motor Vehicle Accident – 2005 Hyundai Santa Fe / 2002 Jaguar
A two vehicle crash caused injuries to an elderly woman, 62 year old Kathy J. Brown of Port Clinton, Ohio, on October 2, 2013 at approximately 8:40 am. Police reports are that a 2005 Hyundai Santa Fe SUV was being driven by a 58 year old man, west on County Route 195, while the woman was driving a 2002 Jaguar midsize car, south on Federal Highway 23. The man allegedly failed to yield the right of way to the Jaguar and attempted to enter the southbound lanes of the highway. The SUV struck the car in the left front. She was treated at the scene and the man was charged.
Stop signs were a contributing factor in 7,331 injury crashes in Ohio in 2010. Grand Prairie, Marion, Ohio, whose population in 2011 was 1,609, suffered 20 injury crashes, which resulted in 27 people being injured. Accidents that occurred in 2010 which involved drivers’ failure to yield accounted for 12,165, while those, which were angle crashes, were 21,458, which resulted in injuries in 2010. Accidents that occurred and resulted in injuries when it was cloudy amounted to 19,791.
If you’ve been injured in a Grand Prairie, Richland or Pleasant, Ohio, area accident, please call the Marion County, Ohio, car accident lawyers at Chester Law at 800-218-4243.