DEFIANCE COUNTY, Ohio — A man is dead after the Ohio State Highway Patrol said a driver failed to move over and hit an OSHP cruiser and a car that was pulled over on Saturday in northwest Ohio.
OSHP said a trooper had pulled over the driver for a speeding violation on U.S. Route 24 in Defiance County.
Around 2:35 p.m., while the trooper was writing the citation in his car, OSHP said a man driving a pick-up truck drove off the right side of the road and hit the cruiser and the car that was pulled over.
The passenger in the pick-up truck, 52-year-old Steven Johnson, of Bryan, Ohio, died at the scene.
The driver of the pick-up truck was flown to a hospital in Toledo with life-threatening injuries.
The state trooper was taken to a local hospital for injuries that were not life-threatening.
The driver who was pulled over and his passenger were taken to a local hospital by ambulance to be treated for possible injuries.
