Crash critically injures one

CANFIELD — A crash on state Route 62 Monday critically injured one person, said the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

The patrol is not releasing the name of the person, who is from Pennsylvania, until family is notified. He was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center.

The accident happened around 4:30 p.m. A van driven by Dewey Salyers, 73, of Youngstown hit the back of a truck that had stopped to back into a driveway just west of Leffingwell Road, the patrol reports. It was Salyers’ passenger who was injured. Salyers had minor injuries and was also taken to St. Elizabeth’s. The truck driver, Darren Wagner, 31, of North Jackson, was not injured.