Woman killed, others hurt in two-vehicle collision

Occupants had to be extricated from one car.
WARREN -- A 24-year-old woman was killed at the scene, and a girl was seriously injured in a two-car collision on wet pavement on Tod Avenue Southwest, just south of Palmyra Road Southwest, on Thursday afternoon.
The woman was driving a two-door maroon 1990 Pontiac Grand Prix northbound on Tod shortly after 4 p.m., when it went left of center on a bend and skidded sideways into a southbound black four-door 1992 Cadillac Sedan de Ville, forcing both vehicles off the road, according to Police Sgt. Larry Salvato. The Cadillac had just turned off Palmyra onto Tod before the crash, he said.
Firefighters had to extricate the occupants of the maroon car, according to police Lt. Cathy Giovannone.
Two girls and a man were passengers in the maroon car. They and the driver of the Cadillac, 24-year-old Lemont Smith of Warren, were taken to Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital, from which one of the girls was flown by helicopter to an Akron hospital, a TMH spokeswoman said. Smith was treated and released, a report says.
The man in the maroon car was transferred to St. Elizabeth Health Center, Youngstown, and the other girl were in the TMH emergency room Thursday evening, the spokeswoman said. Conditions were not available for the survivors.
Both cars came to rest side by side facing west along the west curb of Tod Avenue, where a crowd gathered after the accident.
Besides city police and firefighters, an Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper and coroner's office staff were at the scene.
The accident remained under investigation at press time Thursday evening. Police withheld the name of the woman killed pending notification of family.