CLINTON TWP, OH : An 83-year-old woman died from injuries sustained in a two-vehicle crash on Saturday, July 29, 2017

An 83-year-old woman died from injuries sustained in a two-vehicle crash along Shreve Road just west of the intersection of South Elyria Road and County Road 51.

Jane Leedy, 83, Clinton Township, was driving a 2005 Chrysler Sebring south on South Elyria Road and stopped at the intersection of Shreve Road/state Route 226 around 2:30 p.m. Saturday. She proceeded onto S.R. 226 and into the path of a 2014 Honda CR-V driven by Polly Barnes, 76, Wooster.

The Honda struck the Chrysler on the driver’s side door, and it ended up traveling off the south side of the S.R. 226. The Chrysler traveled of the north side of the state highway.

Leedy was transported to the Wooster Community Hospital by the Clinton Township Fire Department. She was later pronounced dead by Dr. Amy Jolliff, Wayne County coroner.

Barnes, along with two passengers in her vehicle, Louise Plusquellec, 81, and Joyce Roe, 84, both of Wooster, were all transported to Wooster Community Hospital with minor injuries, according to a report from the State Highway Patrol. They were treated and released.

Clinton Township Fire Chief Scott Ervin said the intersection is very dangerous, and several people who live in the area agreed.

Stephen Heichel, whose house in on the southwest corner of the intersection, said he has counted five crashes there since January.

“Most of the time it is (traffic coming) from the Big Prairie side,” Heichel said. “There’s a blind spot.”

“They need to do something, there are a lot of crashes there,” Linda Blevens said. “We were sitting there watching the bikes” from the Pan Ohio Hope Ride to support the American Cancer Society.

Cyclists, and traffic, were stopped because of the crash. One of the drivers trying to get through the intersection was Nicole Dawson of Lakeville. When she was in high school in 2004, she was driving through the same intersection, coming from Big Prairie.

There is a dip in the road west of the intersection, and as Dawson was approaching, a tractor-trailer was pulling into the intersection from South Elyria Road and heading westward. She said the truck was left of center. The two collided, and she ended up in a field and was transported via a medical helicopter.

“I had a lot of injuries, I was lucky, though, lucky,” Dawson said. “My car ripped the front axle off the semi. This is a very bad intersection. You can’t see when you are at the stop signs.”

Don Clark, who lives in the area, said his son and daughter-in-law were involved in crash about a year ago at the intersection. They came to the stop sign, looked right, then left and proceeded into the intersection when their car was T-boned.

“This is a dangerous, dangerous intersection,” Clark said. “It’s too bad.”

Carolyn Sigler can see the intersection from her kitchen window, and she said at least two vehicles blow through the stop signs each week.

Blevens said she and her husband would often light flares when crashes happened at the intersection.

“I hope they do something with the intersection,” Dawson said. “It will be a tremendous help.”

Providing mutual aid were the Western Holmes Fire District and Wooster Township Fire and Rescue. The State Highway Patrol is investigating the crash.

Source :
Woman, 83, killed in two-vehicle crash