{"id":192689,"date":"2025-05-11T20:55:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T01:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=192689"},"modified":"2025-05-11T20:56:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T01:56:02","slug":"mercer-county-crash-claims-mendon-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/05\/11\/mercer-county-crash-claims-mendon-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercer County crash claims Mendon man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MENDON &#8212; A two-vehicle accident at the intersection of U.S. 33 and Celina Mendon Rd. in Mercer County left one person dead on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The accident occurred at approximately 3 p.m. when Eric Topp, 48, of Mendon, was southbound on Celina Mendon Rd., observed the stop sign at the intersection, then pulled into the path of an eastbound semi-trailer driven by James R. Roell, 62, of Wallingford, Kentucky. Topp was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mendon Fire Department, Rockford Fire Department, Celina EMS and MCERV all provided assistance at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The crash remains under investigation by the Mercer County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff MENDON &#8212; A two-vehicle accident at the intersection of U.S. 33 and Celina Mendon Rd. in Mercer County left one person dead on Saturday. The accident occurred at approximately 3 p.m. when Eric Topp, 48, of Mendon, was southbound on Celina Mendon Rd., observed the stop sign at the intersection, then pulled [&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-192689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 04:47:39","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\/192689","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=192689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192690,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192689\/revisions\/192690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}