One man dead, another injured in head-on crash in Portage County
Beacon Journal
One man died and another was injured in a head-on crash on state Route 14 in Ravenna Township Wednesday morning.
A semi-tractor trailer was stopped in traffic, waiting to turn left onto Lake Rockwell at about 8:30 a.m., when a car swerved into oncoming traffic to avoid hitting the back of truck. The driver of the 2019 Chrysler 300 hit a northwest-bound 2007 Ford Focus, the Record Courier reported.
Zachary P. Cochran, 35, of Wellsville in Columbiana County, was pronounced dead at the scene. William Nagle, 81, of Twinsburg, the Chrysler’s driver, was taken to University Hospitals Portage Medical Center for injuries that did not appear life-threatening.
One man is dead and another injured following a head-on collision on Route 14, just north of Lake Rockwell Road, in Ravenna Township on Wednesday morning.
Sgt. Shaun Baskerville of the Ohio State Highway Patrol said that at about 8:25 a.m., a southeast-bound semi-truck was stopped in traffic waiting to turn left onto Lake Rockwell when a 2019 Chrysler 300 approaching from behind swerved to the left into oncoming traffic to avoid hitting the back of the truck and collided with a northwest bound 2007 Ford Focus.
Baskerville said the driver of the Ford Focus, 35-year-old Zachary P. Cochran, of Wellsville in Columbiana County, was pronounced dead at the scene and the Chrysler’s driver, identified as William A. Nagle, 81, of Twinsburg, was taken to University Hospitals Portage Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries.