{"id":188649,"date":"2025-01-19T21:57:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T02:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=188649"},"modified":"2025-01-19T21:57:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T02:57:45","slug":"allen-county-crash-claims-lima-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/01\/19\/allen-county-crash-claims-lima-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Allen County crash claims Lima man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lima Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol believes alcohol may have played a role in an early Saturday morning crash that claimed a Lima resident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a report from the Lima Patrol Post, the accident occurred at approximately 12:40 a.m. Saturday on Slabtown Rd. just north of Searfoss Rd. in Monroe Township.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keith A. Lackey, 56, of Lima, was operating a 1998 Ford Explorer northbound on Slabtown Rd. and drove partially off the right side of the roadway. The vehicle re-entered the roadway and began sliding sideways and drove partially off the left side of the roadway. The vehicle then re-entered the roadway and rolled over several times, ejecting Lackey before coming to final rest on the right side of the roadway in a ditch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lackey was transported to St. Rita\u2019s Mercy Health Hospital by Columbus Grove EMS where he was pronounced deceased. Troopers noted Lackey was not wearing a seat belt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assisting troopers on scene were deputies with the Putnam County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Columbus Grove EMS, Cairo and Monroe Township Fire and EMS and Miller Performance. The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information The Lima Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol believes alcohol may have played a role in an early Saturday morning crash that claimed a Lima resident. According to a report from the Lima Patrol Post, the accident occurred at approximately 12:40 a.m. Saturday on Slabtown Rd. just north of Searfoss [&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-188649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 01:09:10","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\/188649","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=188649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188651,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188649\/revisions\/188651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}