SALEM Motorist fined after accident

The driver hit the library director while he was walking through an intersection.
By NORMAN LEIGH
VINDICATOR SALEM BUREAU
SALEM -- An 85-year-old Canfield motorist who struck a pedestrian in November and who was charged last month with driving into a school bus has been fined $80.
Helen Kenreigh of 485 S. Broad St. appeared recently in Columbiana County Municipal Court on a stop-sign violation that stemmed from the school-bus accident, which occurred May 29.
She pleaded no contest to the offense, a fourth-degree misdemeanor. Judge Robert Roberts ordered her to pay a $80 fine and $53 in court costs.
The maximum penalty for the offense is a 30-day jail sentence, a $250 fine and a driver's-license suspension.
Police said Kenreigh, driving a minivan, failed to heed a stop sign at South Ellsworth Avenue and Wilson Street.
Her vehicle collided with a Salem City School District bus carrying about five pupils. No injuries were reported.
Earlier accident
Last month's crash was the second in the city in which Kenreigh has been involved in the last seven months.
On Nov. 5, Kenreigh was driving her van at East State Street and South Lincoln Avenue when it struck George W.S. Hays, 47, director of the Salem Public Library.
Hays was walking in the crosswalk when he was hit. The accident left him in serious condition at a Cleveland hospital. He has since recovered.
Kenreigh was cited by police in county municipal court for a traffic-signal violation in that accident.
She was fined $30 and ordered to pay $53 in costs.
After the November accident, police sent a notice to the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles asking that Kenreigh be ordered to retake her driver's-license exam.
Whether she was instructed to do so is unclear, police said. But she had a valid driver's license when the school-bus accident occurred last month.
After the May 29 crash, police said they intend to again ask the state to have Kenreigh retake her driver's test.