{"id":203278,"date":"2026-03-01T09:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T14:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=203278"},"modified":"2026-03-01T09:43:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T14:43:02","slug":"two-people-killed-in-allen-county-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/03\/01\/two-people-killed-in-allen-county-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Two people killed in Allen County crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FORT SHAWNEE &#8212; A crash involving a semi-truck and multiple cars claimed two people in Allen County Saturday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At approximately 08:15 p.m., the Lima and Wapakoneta Posts of the Ohio State Highway Patrol responded to a report of a commercial semi-truck that had struck multiple vehicles backed up on Interstate 75 North, just north of the exit to Cridersville in Fort Shawnee.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"199\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/OSHP-Logo-e1532741570657.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-105227\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Yvio Michel, 53, of Boynton Beach, Florida, was driving a 2017 Great Dane semi-truck northbound on Interstate 75. Michel failed to maintain an assured clear distance as he approached backed up traffic and struck four passenger vehicles and another semi-truck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those struck included Kayla Route, 28, of Mason, who was driving a 2009 Chevrolet Traverse; Ronald Foley, 58, of Ypsilanti Michigan, in a 2022 Ford F-150; Amanda Gipson, 45, of Lima in a 2015 Buick Enclave; Jason Ford, 46, of Cincinnati in a 2017 Wabash semi-truck, and Cynthia Harter, 66, of Grand Rapids in a 2014 Mazda CX-9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michel and Foley were transported to Lima Memorial Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Route and Gipson were transported to Mercy Health St.Rita\u2019s with serious injuries. Gipson was also accompanied by her husband Hurshel, 52, and their 11-year-old son. Both passengers were pronounced deceased at the scene and were transported to Lima Memorial Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The roadway was closed for approximately five hours. The Ohio Department of Transportation assisted with creating a detour for northbound traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ohio State Highway Patrol Lima and Wapakoneta Posts were assisted on scene by the Allen and Auglaize County Sheriff Offices, Shawnee Fire and EMS, Perry Fire, Lima Fire, Lima-Allen County Paramedics, Cridersville EMS, Mercy EMS, Auglaize County CERT, Auglaize County Emergency Management, Wapakoneta Fire and Police Department and Miller Auto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information FORT SHAWNEE &#8212; A crash involving a semi-truck and multiple cars claimed two people in Allen County Saturday night. At approximately 08:15 p.m., the Lima and Wapakoneta Posts of the Ohio State Highway Patrol responded to a report of a commercial semi-truck that had struck multiple vehicles backed up on Interstate [&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-203278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 07:40:53","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\/203278","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=203278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203279,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203278\/revisions\/203279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}