{"id":146439,"date":"2021-09-27T10:39:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T15:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=146439"},"modified":"2021-09-27T10:39:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T15:39:42","slug":"patrol-handles-fatal-paulding-county-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/09\/27\/patrol-handles-fatal-paulding-county-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrol handles fatal Paulding County crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Independent staff and submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PAULDING &#8212; The Van Wert Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal crash that occurred Sunday at approximately 6:40 p.m. on Ohio&nbsp;613, west of Township Road 159 in&nbsp;Brown Township, Paulding County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Fatal-Crash-artwork-3-2014.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49246\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Troopers determined that Patricia S. Billingsly, 48, of Columbia, Tennessee, was driving a 1999 Plymouth Voyager van when it went off the left side of the roadway when&nbsp;Billingsly swerved and lost control.&nbsp;The van then struck a farm access drive and overturned, and Billingsly was thrown from the vehicle.&nbsp; She succumbed to fatal injuries at the scene and was transported by Oakwood EMS to Paulding County Hospital.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ohio 613 was closed for approximately 45 minutes following the crash during the investigation and scene clean-up.&nbsp;The Ohio State Highway Patrol was assisted at the scene by the Paulding County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Paulding County Coroner, Oakwood volunteer fire and EMS, and Gideon\u2019s Towing Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Patrol reminds motorists to not drive distracted and always buckle up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent staff and submitted information PAULDING &#8212; The Van Wert Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal crash that occurred Sunday at approximately 6:40 p.m. on Ohio&nbsp;613, west of Township Road 159 in&nbsp;Brown Township, Paulding County. Troopers determined that Patricia S. Billingsly, 48, of Columbia, Tennessee, was driving a 1999 Plymouth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 04:34:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}