Friday, December 18, 2009
AUSTINTOWN — Authorities are now investigating whether alcohol was a factor in the car crash that claimed the life of a Girard police dispatcher.
Thomas Zuppo, 47, of Girard, was killed just after midnight Wednesday after he rear-ended a Ohio Department of Transportation salt truck on Interstate 80 in Austintown.
Patrol Sgt. Nakia Hendrix previously said they didn’t believe weather was a factor in the accident.
Officials for the Canfield Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol said results of the investigation are pending. Results of the coroner’s report won’t be released for six to eight weeks.