Driver sheers cruiser, strikes SUV carrying infant downtown Youngstown

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

A motorist struck two vehicles – one a Youngstown police cruiser and another carrying an infant – after running the red light at Market and Front streets just after 2 p.m. Thursday, police said.

“It looked like she was going 50 miles an hour – she was cruising,” said Jarrod Marrie of Sharpsville, Pa., the father of the infant.

The woman’s Nissan SUV was traveling southbound along Market Street, toward the bridge, police said. A Youngstown officer traveling east along Front Street entered the intersection after receiving the green light.

“She didn’t even try to stop. She just kept going and took his whole front end off,” Marrie said.

According to Marrie, after shearing off the police cruiser’s front guard, the woman’s SUV spun sideways, struck his Toyota SUV, then spun almost 180 degrees and came to rest in the northbound lane, just before the bridge.

Read more about the incident in Friday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.