{"id":157357,"date":"2022-08-29T03:52:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T08:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=157357"},"modified":"2022-08-29T03:52:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T08:52:13","slug":"two-atv-accidents-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/08\/29\/two-atv-accidents-under-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Two ATV accidents under investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three people were injured in two separate 4-wheel ATV crashes on Saturday and both accidents are under investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first crash occurred at 3:14 a.m. Saturday on private property near Ohio 81 and Ohio 49 in Willshire. According to the Van Wert County Sheriff\u2019s Office, the driver, Lacy Brister of Willshire, went up a hill at approximately 15 miles per hour and hit a tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brister and a passenger, Joseph Schmidt of Decatur, Indiana, were ejected from the ATV. Brister was transported to Parkview Health, while Schmidt was taken to Van Wert Health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sheriff\u2019s Office said alcohol is believed to be a factor in the crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second accident occurred at 2:46 p.m. Saturday on Mason St. in Middle Point, when an ATV was struck by a vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a report from the Van Wert County Sheriff\u2019s Department, a juvenile was injured in the accident. Middle Point EMS was at the scene and a Sheriff\u2019s report said the Van Wert Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol was investigating the accident. An OSHP dispatcher could not find a report on the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff Three people were injured in two separate 4-wheel ATV crashes on Saturday and both accidents are under investigation. The first crash occurred at 3:14 a.m. Saturday on private property near Ohio 81 and Ohio 49 in Willshire. According to the Van Wert County Sheriff\u2019s Office, the driver, Lacy Brister of Willshire, went [&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-157357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 14:55:01","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\/157357","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=157357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157358,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157357\/revisions\/157358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}