Speed is cited as factor in 2 crashes


Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Speed was a major factor in two accidents in the city that left two men in critical condition, a city police officer said.

Detective Sgt. Patricia Garcar of the police department’s traffic division said Michael Wooten, 43, of Struthers, was riding a 2000 Honda motorcycle on Federal Street near Himrod Avenue on the East Side at 6 p.m. Tuesday when he lost control of the motorcycle and was involved in an accident.

“He [Wooten] was going significantly fast and wearing no helmet. That is the main thing, because most of his injuries are to his head,” Garcar said.

Garcar said that later Tuesday evening, Michael Pippins, 26, of Boardman, was driving a 2002 Pontiac Grand Am in the 1900 block of Logan Avenue on the North Side when he lost control of the vehicle and hit a utility pole. Pippins, she said, was speeding at the time of the accident.

Wooten and Pippins were listed in critical condition as of Wednesday evening.

“He [Pippins] had to have been going significantly fast because the car did go airborne and was wrapped around a pole,” she said. “There is no other explanation right now.”

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