Crash sends ODOT worker to hospital with minor injuries
BATH TOWNSHIP The driver of an Ohio Department of Transportation truck was hurt Tuesday when his vehicle was struck by a semi tractor-trailer rig.
Troopers from the Lima post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol responded at about 1:25 a.m. Tuesday to mile marker 127 on Interstate 75 after a northbound semi driven by Matthew Fought, 40, of Lima, drifted off the side of the roadway and struck the ODOT vehicle driven by Caleb Varhees, 32, of Cridersville. The ODOT truck, a Ford-450, was parked on the east shoulder of I-75 with emergency lights and arrow board activated. Varhees was inside the truck.
Morning crash shuts down Ohio interstate
The Journal Gazette
An Ohio Department of Transportation employee received minor injuries this morning when a semi crashed into the ODOT truck he was in on Interstate 75.
Around 1:25 a.m., Matthew Fought, 40, of Lima, was driving his semi north on I-75 when he crossed the white edge line and collided with the ODOT truck that was parked on the east shoulder of the interstate.
The ODOT truck had emergency lights and an arrow board activated, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said. Caleb Varhees, 32, of Cridersville, was in the ODOT truck at the time of the crash and was taken to Mercy Health St. Rita’s Medical Center in Lima with minor injuries.