{"id":204830,"date":"2026-04-13T10:16:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=204830"},"modified":"2026-04-13T10:16:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:16:53","slug":"man-injured-in-single-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/04\/13\/man-injured-in-single-car-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Man injured in single car crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VENEDOCIA &#8212; Alcohol is believed to have played a role in a single vehicle accident in York Township.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Van Wert Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol, the crash occurred at approximately 10:40 p.m. Friday on Jones Hughes Rd. The driver, Dan Neiferd, 48, of Venedocia, went left of center and drove off the road, then struck a fence and a tree. First responders noted Nieferd had left the scene on foot, but the Van Wert County Sheriff\u2019s Office deplyed a drone to find him lying in a nearby wooded area. He had sustained serious injuries and was airlifted to a Fort Wayne hospital. His current condition is unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff VENEDOCIA &#8212; Alcohol is believed to have played a role in a single vehicle accident in York Township. According to the Van Wert Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol, the crash occurred at approximately 10:40 p.m. Friday on Jones Hughes Rd. The driver, Dan Neiferd, 48, of Venedocia, went left of [&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-204830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-23 21:51:06","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\/204830","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=204830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204832,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204830\/revisions\/204832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}