{"id":46720,"date":"2013-12-21T06:30:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T11:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=46720"},"modified":"2013-12-21T06:35:59","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T11:35:59","slug":"fatal-crash-occurs-on-u-s-127-in-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/12\/21\/fatal-crash-occurs-on-u-s-127-in-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman dies in head-on crash on US 127"},"content":{"rendered":"

Van Wert independent\/OSHP<\/i><\/p>\n

The Ohio State Highway Patrol\u2019s Van Wert Post is investigating a fatal crash that occurred on U.S. 127, just north of U.S. 224, at 1:58 p.m. Friday in Hoaglin Township, Van Wert County.<\/p>\n

\"fatal<\/a>According to troopers, a 2001 Pontiac Grand Am driven by Shannon L. Sholler, 41, was southbound on U.S. 127 when Sholler reportedly crossed the centerline and struck a northbound 2011 Chevrolet Cruze driven by Chelsi J. Siefker, 18, head-on.<\/p>\n

Siefker was transported from the scene by Van Wert Fire Department\u2019s Advanced Life Support Squad and later was flown to a Fort Wayne, Ind., hospital by life-flight helicopter.<\/p>\n

Sholler was pronounced dead at the scene by Van Wert County Coroner Dr. Scott Jarvis.\u00a0 She was transported by Brickner Ambulance Service to Van Wert County Hospital.<\/p>\n

U.S. 127 was closed for approximately two hours during the on-scene investigation and crash clean-up.<\/p>\n

Both drivers were wearing their seat belts. Assisting at the scene were the Van Wert County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Scott Volunteer Fire & EMS, Van Wert Fire Department and Medic Squad, Bricker Ambulance Service, 2A\u2019s Towing, and Parker-Mace Wrecker Service.<\/p>\n

Also Friday, the southern portion of U.S. 127 was closed for several hours following a diesel spill that resulted from a non-injury crash between a car and a semi tractor-trailer rig at the intersection with Cooper Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Van Wert independent\/OSHP The Ohio State Highway Patrol\u2019s Van Wert Post is investigating a fatal crash that occurred on U.S. 127, just north of U.S. 224, at 1:58 p.m. Friday in Hoaglin Township, Van Wert County. According to troopers, a 2001 Pontiac Grand Am driven by Shannon L. Sholler, 41, was southbound on U.S. 127 […]<\/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-46720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-10 23:37:46","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\/46720","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=46720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}