{"id":25578,"date":"2012-06-18T05:22:46","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T10:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=25578"},"modified":"2012-06-18T05:23:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T10:23:15","slug":"paulding-man-dies-in-u-s-127-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/06\/18\/paulding-man-dies-in-u-s-127-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Paulding man dies in U.S. 127 crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>OSHP information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>PAULDING &#8212; The Ohio State Highway Patrol\u2019s Van Wert Post is investigating a fatal crash that occurred at 2 p.m. Sunday on U.S. 127, just north of Ohio 613 in Paulding County. \u00a0The crash was approximately three miles south of the city of Paulding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/osplogo.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/osplogo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>A 1999 Mercury Grand Marquis driven by Walter Harris, 88, of Van Wert, was northbound on U.S. 127, while a 1998 Chevrolet pickup truck operated by Paul D. Keeler, 63, of Paulding, had lost the left front wheel and was stopped off the right side of the roadway.\u00a0Jon Gideon, 51, of Gideon\u2019s Wrecker Service, was assisting Keeler in replacing the wheel on the pickup truck when Harris drove upon the disabled vehicle and failed to move over far enough, striking Keeler with the right front bumper of his car.\u00a0 Keeler and Gideon were both thrown onto the back of the flatbed wrecker parked in front of the pickup truck.<\/p>\n<p>Keeler was transported to Paulding County Hospital by Paulding EMS, where he was later pronounced dead.\u00a0 Gideon was transported by private vehicle to Paulding County Hospital, where he is being treated for minor injuries.\u00a0Harris was transported to Paulding County Hospital for observation and later released.<\/p>\n<p>The Patrol was assisted on scene by the Paulding Volunteer Fire and EMS and Paulding County Sheriff\u2019s Department.<\/p>\n<p>The crash is still under investigation.\u00a0The wrecker did have its yellow emergency strobe lights in operation at the time of the crash.\u00a0Alcohol is not believed to be a factor in the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OSHP information PAULDING &#8212; The Ohio State Highway Patrol\u2019s Van Wert Post is investigating a fatal crash that occurred at 2 p.m. Sunday on U.S. 127, just north of Ohio 613 in Paulding County. \u00a0The crash was approximately three miles south of the city of Paulding. A 1999 Mercury Grand Marquis driven by Walter Harris, [&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-25578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 08:21:17","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\/25578","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=25578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}