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A Fort Wayne woman has died from injuries suffered in a crash Nov. 27.
Ida B. Schmidtke, 95, was driving in the 6000 block of Stellhorn Road about 1 p.m. when she was involved in a crash, the Allen County coroner s office said today in a statement following an autopsy.
Schmidtke was admitted to a hospital after the crash, where she later died, the statement said.
Schmidtke s cause of death has been ruled as pneumonia and respiratory failure from blunt force injuries. Her manner of death has been ruled an accident.
Schmidtke is the 33rd person to die in a crash in Allen County this year.
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An Angola, Indiana, man was hurt badly in a two-vehicle crash Monday morning in Northwest Township.
The Defiance Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol reported that at 8:36 a.m., a 2008 Buick sedan driven by Hugh M. Skiles, 91, of Angola, was traveling southbound on County Road 1.50 while a 2017 Jeep SUV driven by Jennifer A. Horne, 41, of Edon, was traveling northbound on that road.
The preliminary investigation indicates that Skilesâ Buick traveled left of center while negotiating a curve and collided head-on into Horneâs Jeep.
Skiles was removed from his vehicle using mechanical extrication equipment operated by fire and rescue personnel on scene. He was transported by the Samaritan Life Flight to Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana, with critical injuries received in the crash.
Angola man critically hurt in Ohio crash
The Journal Gazette
An Angola man was critically injured this morning in a two-vehicle crash near the intersection of two Williams County, Ohio, roads, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said today.
Hugh M. Skiles, 91, was removed from his car and flown to Parkview Regional Medical Center in Fort Wayne with critical injuries, the highway patrol at Defiance said in a statement.
The highway patrol said Skiles was traveling south on County Road 1.50 shortly after 8:30 a.m. when he traveled left of center while negotiating a curve near County Road P.50 and collided head-on with an SUV driven by Jennifer A. Horne, 41, of Edon, Ohio.