(Toledo News Now) – The Ohio Turnpike is closed eastbound and westbound near Sandusky after a massive pileup. The crashes have left at least two people dead, and many others injured. According to the dispatcher, about a dozen semi trucks jack-knifed in the westbound lanes stopping traffic around 2:30 p.m. At least six more jack-knifed […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - The Cleveland Division of Police Homicide Unit is investigating the dragging death of 16-year-old Rosaura L. Oquendo. It happened Sunday night at 10:30PM on West 81st Street. First District zone cars responded for a female dragged by a vehicle. Once on scene, officers located the unresponsive victim. EMS was notified, responded to the scene and conveyed the victim to MetroHealth Medical Center where she expired from her injuries.
CLEVELAND – It may come as no surprise that Cleveland’s Woodland Avenue, E. 55th Street and Kinsman Road intersection is the most dangerous out of every other junction in Cuyahoga, Geauga, Medina, Lake and Lorain counties, according to a new crash study. From 2007-2009, there have been a total of 161 crashes at the junction. […]
CLEVELAND – A family of five is recovering in the hospital after police said a drunken driver caused an RTA bus to crash into their car Sunday night. Cleveland police said the accident happened when a drunken driver, who was being pursued by fourth district officers, ran a stop sign at East 130 Street and […]
CLEVELAND – A police chase in Cleveland involving a bank robbery suspect and a child in the car ended in a crash on the city’s west side Friday afternoon. The car police were chasing crashed into a utility police near West 110 th and Lake Avenue at about 1:10 p.m. Police dispatchers said at least […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Crews have reopened I-71 after an accident involving a Cleveland Police officer. The accident happened around 2:15pm in the northbound lanes near the Ridge Road overpass. Police say a gray SUV spun out and the officer stopped to check on that accident. Just before he stepped out of the cruiser, a […]
CLEVELAND – All lanes of Interstate 71 northbound in Cleveland have been shut down due to a multi-car crash. The pileup happened sometime around 3 p.m. near the Ridge Road exit. Cleveland police closed all lanes of traffic and drivers are being diverted off at the West 65 th Street exit. Traffic is backed up […]
CLEVELAND – A man was seriously injured when he was hit by a truck outside Cleveland Browns Stadium Sunday evening. It happened around 6:44 p.m. on state Route 2 between the East 9th Street ramp and the West 3rd Street exit. The Browns played the Baltimore Ravens at 4 p.m., but many fans left the […]
PAINESVILLE TOWNSHIP, Ohio – The woman who was run over by a tractor trailer in a Lake County shopping center parking lot has died. The incident happened Thursday in front of the Bed, Bath, and Beyond store on Mentor Avenue in Painesville Township, just east of the Mentor city limits. The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s […]
AKRON, Ohio – The man who was driving under the influence during an Akron crash that killed two women pleaded guilty to charges on Tuesday. James Woodruff, 28, agreed to a plea deal and was sentenced to nine years in prison by Summit County Common Pleas Judge Mary Margaret Rowlands. Police said speed and alcohol […]
MENTOR, OH (WOIO) – A bad accident shut down Mentor’s Center Street Bridge in both directions late Monday morning. The accident happened around 10:30 a-m and the bridge did not re-open until around 2:30 p-m. Officers say four vehicles, including an ambulance, were involved in the wreck. One vehicle went left of center and hit […]
AKRON, OH (WOIO) – An Akron mother slapped with charges after getting high on drugs and dumping her little kid off in the middle of the road. Police say Melissa D. Swiger was driving while under the influence of drugs. The 32-year-old drove down W. Waterloo Road, took her three-year-old son out of the car […]