Crash victim ID’d

NORTH LIMA

Authorities have identified Cecil Chamberlain of Carlsbad, Calif., as the man killed in a Monday crash. Chamberlain, 69, was driving one of three vehicles involved in the crash, which occurred just after 11 a.m. along Western Reserve Road, near the Ohio Turnpike underpass between Hitchcock and New Buffalo roads.

An oncoming SUV driven by a Salem woman struck an SUV in front of Chamberlain, then his sedan, forcing it off the road, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

Chamberlain was transported to St. Elizabeth Boardman Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to the Mahoning County Coroner’s Office. Chamberlain’s 66-year-old female passenger also was taken to the hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries. Neither of the other drivers were seriously injured.

Charges are pending in the incident, the patrol said.