{"id":206703,"date":"2026-06-05T20:03:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T01:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=206703"},"modified":"2026-06-05T20:03:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T01:03:53","slug":"friday-afternoon-crash-claims-one-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/06\/05\/friday-afternoon-crash-claims-one-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday afternoon crash claims one person"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JACKSON TOWNSHIP &#8212; The Van Wert Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal crash that claimed a Putnam County resident. It occurred shortly after 2 p.m. Friday at the intersection Ohio 637 and County Road 138 in Jackson Township, Paulding County.<\/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>Sara Woolbright, 20, of Continental was driving a 2002 Volkswagen Beetle westbound on County Road 138 and stopped at the intersection with Ohio 637. Brian Robinson, 40, of Defiance was driving a 2025 Ford F-750 northbound on Ohio 637. Woolbright failed to yield from a posted stop sign and pulled into the path of Robinson. After colliding the two vehicles ran off the west side of Ohio 637 and struck a guard rail. Woolbright was pronounced dead at the scene. Robinson and his passenger, Ronald Sanholtz, 64, of Liberty Center, were not injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Patrol was assisted on scene by the Paulding County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Paulding Fire and EMS, and Gideon&#8217;s Towing and Recovery. The crash remains under investigation and no charges have been filed. Drugs and alcohol are not suspected to be a factor in the crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol serves Van Wert and Paulding counties. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information JACKSON TOWNSHIP &#8212; The Van Wert Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal crash that claimed a Putnam County resident. It occurred shortly after 2 p.m. Friday at the intersection Ohio 637 and County Road 138 in Jackson Township, Paulding County. Sara Woolbright, 20, of Continental was [&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-206703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 09:30:26","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\/206703","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=206703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206704,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206703\/revisions\/206704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}