Ohio trooper injured in fiery crash with wrong-way driver
By: The Columbus Dispatch, policeone.com
COLUMBUS, Ohio — An Ohio State Highway Patrol officer and a motorist traveling the wrong way were injured early Thursday in a fiery head-on collision on Interstate 71 in Morrow County.
The collision occurred around 2:40 a.m. in the northbound lanes of I-71 approximately four miles north of the Rt. 95 exit, according to the patrol’s Mount Gilead Post.
The trooper had been dispatched to locate a possibly impaired driver on I-71 when his cruiser was struck head-on by a vehicle traveling southbound in the northbound lanes, the patrol said. Both vehicles then caught on fire.
