The Zanesville Highway Patrol says one person was slightly hurt in a one vehicle accident on Licking Road Friday afternoon just south of Ray Thomas Lumbertown. Troopers say 59-year-old Connie Adams of Zanesville took her eyes of the road to put her glasses away when she hit a mailbox, went into a ditch and hit a utility pole. Emergency crews used the “jaws of life” to cut Adams out of her vehicle. Licking Road was closed for about an hour while the accident was...
A man is cited after hitting the back-end of another vehicle earlier today.
Trooper Patrick Townsend of the Lancaster Post of the State Highway Patrol says it happened around 2 p.m. on Thursday. He says Brandon Shaver was riding his motorcycle northbound on Ceramic Road about a half mile north of State Route 669, when he rear-ended a pick-up truck being driven by Tyler Burgess, who was slowing down to turn into a driveway.
Shaver will be cited for failure to assure...
A female worker is taken by Medflight to Riverside Hospital in Columbus after becoming injured at a Newark construction site.
ODOT says it happened around 8:30 a.m. at the 21st Street project, just north of Ohio 16.
Newark Fire Chief, Dave Decker, says Patricia Riser was operating a drill and became caught in that drill. He says she sustained a non life-threatening injury to her arm.
Riser is a construction worker with Shelly and Sands Incorporated, based in Zanesville.
Granville Post State Troopers say a 52-year-old Newark man, who died in an overnight motorcycle crash Saturday, was not wearing a helmet.
It happened just after midnight in Madison Township.
Troopers says Michael Annarino was traveling north on State Route 79 when his motorcycle went of the right side of the road and overturned. Annarino was thrown from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene.
The crash remains under investigation. Troopers says it's not know if...
A two-car accident on Maple Avenue backs-up traffic for about an hour.
It happened around 6 p.m. in front of Arby's.
Zanesville Post Trooper Williams says the driver of the Chevy Cavalier was traveling north on Maple Avenue and got in the turning lane to make a left hand turn into the Country Fair Shopping Center. When she went to turn, he says she pulled in front of a trunk that was traveling south. The impact spun the Chevy Cavalier, and it struck the curb in front of Arby's...
The Newark Police Department says a woman is transported to Licking Memorial Hospital with non life-threatening injuries after an accident on 21st Street.
It happened around 2:30 p.m.
Sergeant Al schaffer says the driver of the Cadillac was traveling north on 21st Street in the center turning lane when she was struck by the driver of Scion, who was pulling out of a nearby shopping center. Schaffer says while the injured driver of the Cadillac was not using the middle lane to turn...
A two-vehicle accident in Zanesville sends two people to the hospital.
Sergeant Chris Phipps of the Zanesville Police Department says around 4:30 p.m. a red Dodge Neon was traveling southbound on Mead Street and failed to yield at a stop sign striking a red Chevy truck that was driving eastbound on Ridge Avenue.
Emergency personnel had to use the jaws of life to take the door off the passenger side of the Dodge Neon. Both the driver and passenger of that vehicle were transported...
The Zanesville Post of the State Highway Patrol is investigating a two-vehicle accident on State Route 146.
It happened Thursday morning near the Olde Falls Inn.
The Highway Patrol says there were minor injuries in the accident.
Traffic is also backed-up on State Route 146 and will remain that way while the incident is investigated.
No other details have been released.
Medflight transports a 26-year-old Fresno woman after she sustains injuries from an ATV crash in Coshocton County.
It happened around 6:30 Saturday evening on Township Road 156.
The Sheriff's Office says 24-year-old Steve Hall of Fresno was traveling west when he lost control of his four wheeler, went off the left side of the road, and overturned. Both Hall and his passenger, Lisa Oyler, were ejected. Deputies say they weren't wearing helmets at the time of the crash.
Oyler...
The Zanesville Post says alcohol is a factor in a Saturday evening accident that sent one woman to the hospital.
Trooper Williams says around 5 p.m., 21-year-old Joshua Pyle of Chandlersville, was traveling in the 1,900 block of Zane Grey Road, when he went off the right side of the road and struck a tree. His passenger, 22-year-Courtney McGraw of Zanesville, was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital with non life-threatening injuries.
Trooper williams says in the driver's statement,...
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