Cadiz teen injured in Sept. 4 crash near vocational school
Police say speed and wet roads caused 17-year-old driver to lose control of a Ford Mustang, strike a guardrail and slide down an embankment; student transported for evaluation.
An early morning accident Thursday, Sept. 4, sent a 17-year-old female vocational school student to Weirton Medical Center for examination.
Ed Banks
An early morning accident Thursday, Sept. 4, sent a 17-year-old female vocational school student to Weirton Medical Center for examination.
Cadiz Police Department Lt. Ron Carter said speed and wet road conditions contributed to the crash, which happened at 8:01 a.m.
“The accident occurred when the driver failed to negotiate the turn at the junction of Deersville Avenue and Lincoln Avenue,” Carter said. “The driver was operating a 2018 Ford Mustang when she struck the guardrail and then traveled down an embankment, where the car came to rest against a building owned by the Wilgus Company. The operator of the vehicle was heading to the vocational school where she is a student. She was cited for failure to control.”
The driver was transported to Wheeling Medical Center by the Hopedale EMS squad. Carter said the student may have suffered a concussion and was taken to be evaluated as a precaution.
Traffic along Lincoln Avenue and the Deersville Avenue junction was backed up and had to be directed while the vehicle was recovered. Workers from the Village of Cadiz assisted with traffic control.
The car was removed from the scene by Poppe’s Towing Service.
