CAR STRIKES BICYCLIST ON 82

TEEN FLOWN TO METRO FROM SCENE

Eaton Township – An 18 year old Eaton Township man was flown to MetroHealth Medical Center Tuesday morning after being struck by a car.

Trooper Myron Board of the Ohio State Highway Patrol said that 18-year-old Paul Wolf of Eaton Township pulled out of a driveway from the north side of Royalton Road (Rt. 82) on a bicycle and began riding westbound. Alanna Schnell, 59 of LaGrange, was traveling west on Royalton when she saw Wolf pull out onto the roadway. “She says that he was wobbling as he was getting onto the roadway and although she attempted to swerve to go around him – he kept coming and she struck him.”

Wolf went up the hood and into the windshield of Schnell’s GMC SUV – a deep imprint shows where Wolf hit before he rolled off the car and onto the ground.

Firefighters from Eaton Township responded to the scene and immediately put Metro LifeFlight on stand by. Once on scene they requested a chopper to land at the scene.

Within minutes Metro had a chopper on the ground and a medical team in the back of Eaton Township’s ambulance taking over care of Wolf.

Wolf’s mother, who arrived on scene shortly after the crash, waited nervously outside of the ambulance.

Wolf was then flown to Metro with multiple injuries.

Firefighters also spent time with Schnell in the back of the ambulance after Wolf was flown from the scene just to check her vitals and make sure she was ok. Schnell refused any further treatment or transport to the hospital.

Trooper Board said that the investigation is ongoing and that nobody has been cited at this time.


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