Sunday night crash…

One person was taken to the hospital by ambulance after a one-vehicle accident at the CF&E rail crossing on Mendon Rd., not far from Lincoln Highway in Van Wert. The Van Wert County Sheriff’s Office, Van Wert Fire Department and Van Wert Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol were dispatched to the scene shortly before 10 p.m. Sunday, after the driver apparently struck the railroad signal and gate. According to scanner traffic, the driver was not at the scene when emergency personnel arrived but the person was later located nearby and was taken by EMS to OhioHealth Van Wert Hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The OSHP is investigating the accident. Bob Barnes/VWFD photographer