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Man, 80, dragged by pickup truck
This is the second recent case of someone’s hitting another person with a vehicle on the city’s South Side.
YOUNGSTOWN — An 80-year-old man dragged by a pickup truck after a hit-skip accident escaped with only a minor injury to his head.
Police are looking for the pickup truck driver to charge him with felonious assault.
This is the second time in just a few days that a person used a vehicle to hit someone else during an argument on the city’s South Side.
The West Side man was driving south on Shady Run Road when he made a left turn through a green light on East Indianola Avenue around 12:50 p.m. Saturday.
His Buick was hit by an older-model red pickup truck that drove through a red light east on Indianola on the city’s South Side, according to a police report.
The driver of the pickup drove from the scene of the accident, but the West Side man followed him to an East Indianola Avenue apartment.
The older man got out of his car and told the pickup driver that he hit his Buick, something the other driver denied, the police report states.
Two witnesses told police they saw the pickup driver put his truck in reverse and drive into the passenger side rear door of the Buick, parked behind the truck.
The man then backed his pickup again, this time hitting the 80-year-old, who grabbed the truck bed and was dragged a short distance. The pickup driver drove away.
The 80-year-old suffered a cut to the right side of his face and didn’t seek medical attention, a police report states.
The two witnesses gave police the license-plate number of the pickup truck.
Police went to the Taft Avenue home of the pickup’s 44-year-old owner Saturday. Neither he nor the vehicle were there.
But police said they spoke to the pickup owner’s wife, who told officers: “That’s my husband. He gets violent when he drinks. He has a terrible temper.”
On Wednesday, police say Lisa Snyder, 33, ran over a 25-year-old Youngstown man on St. Louis Avenue after an argument.
Snyder faces a charge of felonious assault.
The man suffered injuries to his hands, stomach and face, but wasn’t seriously injured.
Snyder told police the man had a knife and was kicking the windows of the Chevrolet Lumina she was driving. She also told police she was tired of the man “dogging her.”
skolnick@vindy.com