Car Strikes Guardrail and Injures 1 in Jefferson, OH, Speeding Crash

City: Island Creek, Ohio
County: Jefferson, Ohio
Date of Accident: January 7, 2013
Type of Accident: Motor Vehicle Accident – 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt

A 2007 Chevy Cobalt compact car crashed in Island Creek, Jefferson, Ohio, and resulted in injuries for a 23 year old woman of Hopedale, Ohio, on January 7, 2014 at approximately 10:45 am police reported. The reports further stated that the woman was driving the Chevy, east on Federal Highway 22 in the right lane. The car allegedly traveled off the right side of the roadway and struck the guardrail. The woman was treated by her own medical team and charged with operating her vehicle without reasonable control, D.P.C. Auto towed the car.

Crashes that were caused by drivers traveling at unsafe speed in 2012 were 4,031 that caused injuries. In 2012, Island Creek, Jefferson Ohio, had a population of 12,078; there were 4 injury crashes, which resulted in 5 injuries. In the category of location of first harmful event by crash severity, there were 2406 injury-crashes that occurred outside the traffic way in 2011. Accidents that involved guardrail ends were 343, while those accidents that involved guardrail faces were 1,207 which resulted in injuries, in the category of first harmful event in unit of error. Compact cars were involved in 18,796 injury crashes in 2011.

If you’ve been injured in an Island Creek, Wells or Knox, Ohio, area accident, please call the Jefferson County, Ohio, car accident attorneys at Chester Law Group at 800-218-4243