CRAZY 5 CAR CRASH ON LEAVITT

New Russia Township – A five car crash Saturday afternoon on Leavitt Road sent one woman to the hospital and certainly kept State Troopers busy sorting out all of the details.

Trooper Shawn Klein of the Ohio State Highway Patrol said that the crash began when one driver failed to yield from a stop sign.

To lay out this crash we will do it by using unit numbers for the cars.

Unit number 5 (Pick up truck with trailer) was heading northbound on Leavitt Road.
Unit number 1 (Green Taurus) was east on Butternut Ridge Road approaching Leavitt.

Unit number 1 “Failed to yield the stop sign” and pull out in front of unit 5 causing the truck to strike the Taurus. That pushed the Taurus into Unit number 2, a tan Olds Alero.

At this point Troopers believe that the driver of the 1993 pick up truck hit the brakes so hard his brake lines broke. With that the truck went off the right side of the road and into the parking lot of Drug Mart. The truck then struck a shopping cart corral thingy and then struck two more parked cars. Unit number 3, another Taurus, was pushed into a light pole and Unit number 4, a small red and silver pick up truck, was the last to be hit.

Unit number 5 continued his brakeless ride around the lot until he came to rest near the front entrance of the lot.

Klein said that the investigation showed that the driver of Unit 5 had braking action by the marks on the roadway on Leavitt. “You could see the marks on the road south of the intersection and then there were yaw marks in the parking lot, he’s turning and trying to stop the vehicle you can see that real well. Then one of the wrecker drivers told me that he could see why he didn’t stop after the crash, and we looked up and you could see brake fluid coming from the brake line.”

Paramedics from Central Lorain County Ambulance District treated the driver of Unit 1, 57-year-old Marisa Toledo of Elyria, and transported her to Allen Community Hospital with back and chest pains.

Paramedics also made their way around the parking lot offering assistance to others but all refused any treatment or transport.

Klein said that Toledo was charged with failure to yield from a stop sign.

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