Patrol probes several crashes

STAFF REPORT

LISBON — The Ohio State Highway Patrol is still investigating several Friday evening accidents, two of which required the use of a helicopter to take the injured to St. Elizabeth Health Center in Youngstown.

Gary Mitchell, 71, of Alliance, was in critical condition at St. Elizabeth late Saturday after the scooter he was riding collided with a car driven by a 21-year-old woman. The man was transported by helicopter to the hospital. The accident occurred at U.S. Route 30 and Wayne Bridge Road, Lisbon.

The patrol said the woman was driving east when Mitchell’s vehicle went left of center and hit her vehicle.

Another man was taken by helicopter to St. Elizabeth’s after a two-vehicle crash on state Route 172 west of Depot Road, Lisbon. Elizabeth Cook, 64, of Lisbon, was driving a car west while Thomas Brown, 56, of Lisbon was heading west in a pickup truck. The truck went left of center, struck the car and then went off the road, the patrol said. His condition was not known late Saturday.

A man was taken to East Liverpool Hospital after a one-vehicle rollover on state Route 170 at Bye Road, East Palestine.

Christopher Rimoldi, 25, of East Palestine, was northbound when he rolled his pickup truck Friday night. The patrol said he was taken to the East Liverpool City Hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries.

The patrol said he was combative with the emergency room staff and tried to leave. East Liverpool police eventually used a stun gun to restrain him.

Police charged Rimoldi with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence and not using a seat belt.

The patrol continues its investigation of a car-motorcycle accident on U.S. Route 62 in Damascus on Friday. Information still was not available about that crash late Saturday.