OSHP investigating crash in Weathersfield that injured 2

WEATHERSFIELD — The Ohio State Highway Patrol Warren Post is investigating a crash between a pickup truck and a tractor-trailer rig at 1:10 p.m. today on Interstate 80 in the eastbound lane near the Salt Springs Road in which the drivers of the vehicles suffered minor injuries.

According to the patrol report, Ivan Prine Jr., 64, of Youngstown, was driving a pickup eastbound in the left lane slowing for traffic in a construction zone when the tractor-trailer, driven by Tracy Rizer, 47, of Lorain, traveling east in the right lane swerved left to avoid slowing traffic and hit the pickup in the rear. Both vehicles traveled off the side of the road and came to rest in the median.

Prine was transported to ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital in Warren for treatment, and Rizer, charged with failure to maintain an assured clear distance, was taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital for treatment.