{"id":197040,"date":"2025-09-12T15:35:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T20:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=197040"},"modified":"2025-09-12T15:35:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T20:35:45","slug":"two-killed-in-crash-near-county-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/09\/12\/two-killed-in-crash-near-county-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Two killed in crash near county line"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BLUE CREEK TOWNSHIP \u2013 A Friday morning crash involving an SUV and a dump truck claimed both drivers.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/fatal-car-crash-artwork-2-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20210\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>It occurred at approximately 10 a.m. at the intersection of County Road 87 and the Van Wert-Paulding County Line Road (Township Road 12), in Paulding County. According to a report from the Van Wert Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol, a 2016 Ford Explorer driven by Cody M. Motycka, 33, of Van Wert, was traveling south on County Road 87. A 2024 Peterbilt dump truck driven by Kevin S. Halliwill, 53, of Scott was traveling west on the Van Wert-Paulding County Line Road (TR 12). Motycka failed to yield at a stop sign and was struck by Halliwill\u2019s vehicle. The dump truck rolled over and Halliwill, who was not wearing a seat belt, was ejected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Motycka and Halliwill were both pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Highway Patrol was assisted on scene by the Van Wert County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Paulding County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Van Wert County Coroner\u2019s Office, Paulding County Coroner\u2019s Office, Van Wert County EMA, Scott EMS, Van Wert Fire Department, Hague\u2019s Towing, and Gideon\u2019s Towing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information BLUE CREEK TOWNSHIP \u2013 A Friday morning crash involving an SUV and a dump truck claimed both drivers. It occurred at approximately 10 a.m. at the intersection of County Road 87 and the Van Wert-Paulding County Line Road (Township Road 12), in Paulding County. According to a report from the Van [&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-197040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 04:48:17","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\/197040","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=197040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197041,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197040\/revisions\/197041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}