{"id":22766,"date":"2012-04-05T05:10:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T10:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=22766"},"modified":"2012-04-05T05:30:09","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T10:30:09","slug":"ohio-city-man-dies-in-1-car-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/04\/05\/ohio-city-man-dies-in-1-car-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio City man dies in 1-car accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22793\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22793\" style=\"width: 140px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Joel-Ross-Thatcher-obit-photo-4-2012.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22793  \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Joel-Ross-Thatcher-obit-photo-4-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joel Ross Thatcher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An Ohio City man was killed in a one-vehicle accident early Wednesday morning, according to the Van Wert Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>Joel Ross Thatcher, 21, died at approximately 3:11 Wednesday morning when he lost control of his 2009 Honda Civic while westbound on Ohio City-Venedocia Road, near Burris Road. The car veered off the left side of the roadway and hit a utility pole, breaking\u00a0the\u00a0vehicle into 2 pieces.<\/p>\n<p>Thatcher, who was not wearing a seat belt, was thrown from the car. It is unknown whether alcohol was a factor in the crash, which remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Also assisting troopers at the scene were the Van Wert County Sheriff&#8217;s Department, Ohio City Fire Department\/EMS and the County Coroner&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>See funeral information on the Obituary Page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Ohio City man was killed in a one-vehicle accident early Wednesday morning, according to the Van Wert Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol. Joel Ross Thatcher, 21, died at approximately 3:11 Wednesday morning when he lost control of his 2009 Honda Civic while westbound on Ohio City-Venedocia Road, near Burris Road. The car [&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-22766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 06:11:35","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\/22766","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=22766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}