City: Delaware, Ohio
County: Hancock, Ohio
Date of Accident: December 7, 2013
Type of Accident: Motor Vehicle Accident – 2012 Volvo / 2007 Buick
Two women were injured in a crash that occurred on December 7, 2013 at approximately 1:30 pm in Delaware, Hancock, Ohio. Police reports are that a 45 year old man of Toole, UT, was driving a 2012 Volvo truck west on Federal Highway 30 in the right lane. A 50 year old woman, Kelly A. Brookes of Bloomville, Ohio, was driving a 2007 Buick minivan, west in the right lane, ahead of the truck. The woman saw a deer and began to slow her vehicle. The driver of the truck allegedly failed to slow and struck the rear of the car, then drove off the right side of the roadway and struck a ditch. Brookes was transported by Jackson Delaware EMS to Blanchard Valley, while an occupant of the minivan, 52 year old Deborah J. Kaqy, was also injured and transported by Appleseed EMS to Blanchard Valley. The man was charged and John’s towed the minivan.
Accidents that were rear end crashes in 2011 were 22,056 of 81,986 in Ohio. In 2012, Delaware, Hancock, Ohio, had a population of 1,229. They had 8 injury crashes, which resulted in 15 injuries. In the category of probable causes of crashes by contributing circumstances, there were 18,889 injury crashes that were caused because of drivers who failed to keep an assured clear distance ahead/ACDA. Those accidents which involved tractor/semi-trailers amounted to 1,875 which resulted in injuries. Accidents which involved animals in Ohio in 2010 amounted to 1,156, with 794 which involved a deer, all these resulted in injuries.
People who were injured in Delaware, Arcadia or Biglick, Ohio, accidents, please call the Hancock County, Ohio, truck accident lawyers at Chester Law at 800-218-4243.