Accident report reveals some fatal crash details
Accident report reveals some fatal crash details
NEWTON FALLS
The accident report for the Sept. 21 Newton Township crash that killed Jamie and Emily Danes of Newton Falls doesn’t give the results of urine and blood tests conducted on the driver of the other car, Paul Wodianka.
But it describes Wodianka, 42, of Diamond, as exposing himself to personnel and other patients in the emergency room at St. Elizabeth Health Center in the hours after the accident.
“Mr Wodianka kept taking off his hospital gown and sheets,” a trooper with the Ohio State Highway Patrol said in the police report.
“I was told by OSP Sgt. Dave Zatvarnicky and Trooper T.J. Dobbins that [Wodianka] had been leaving his bed, walking up and down the hall and disrobing himself in front of other people,” Trooper Michael J. Vitullo said in his report.
“These actions are abnormal and would suggest a loss of inhibition by the subject,” Vitullo said.
Vitullo reported that Wodianka took a breath test at about 1:30 a.m. — about three hours after the 10:30 p.m. crash — and it produced a reading of 0.031, which is well below the legal limit of 0.08.
Vitullo noted that the urine sample Wodianka gave at about 12:30 — two hours after the crash — may provide the best indication of whether Wodianka was intoxicated at the time of the crash.
In the interview troopers had with Wodianka at the hospital, Wodianka said he knew he’d been in a crash, that he was the driver and there were no passengers in his vehicle.
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