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Cops probing fatal Thanksgiving morning accidents
By Joe Gorman
YOUNGSTOWN
Police say they have a suspect vehicle in a double fatal hit-and-run Thursday morning.
It was one of two accidents in the city that resulted in three fatalities.
Officer Morris Lee of the department’s Accident Investigation Unit said a suspect vehicle in a 1:30 a.m. accident on Lans- downe Boulevard that killed 51-year-old David Kent Williams and 52-year-old Keith Rogers, both of Youngstown, was found Friday on the East Side.
That vehicle is being held as evidence, Lee said.
Police said Rogers and Williams were passengers in a car that collided with the rear of a semi truck and burst into flames in the 800 block of Lansdowne, and the truck drove away.
Rogers and Williams had to be identified by relatives because they were badly burned. Police have not released the name of the driver, who is being treated in the burn unit at Akron Children’s Hospital.
Lee said trucks are banned from driving on Lansdowne Boulevard.
Also Thursday, police were called about 9 a.m. to the 2100 block of Poland Avenue on the lower South Side where they found a man’s body outside his pickup truck at Allied Erecting.
Lee said it appeared the truck had gone off the road and collided with a pile of scrap metal. He said police think the accident happened several hours before it was called in. A passer-by noticed the wreck and called the police.
Reports said Robert Campy Jr., 24, of Boardman, was thrown from his pickup truck, which went through a fence and over a wall. The Mahoning County Coroner’s Office said Campy died instantly of massive blunt-force trauma to the head.
The cause of both accidents is under investigation.