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April 10, 2009
Mystery man sought after worker injured in Ashland Co.
BY AL LAWRENCE
News Journal correspondent
ASHLAND — The Ohio Highway Patrol is still trying to determine how a Green Township worker was injured Tuesday while cleaning up after a tree trimming crew on Township Road 2704 near Perrysville.
Troopers say they are looking for an unidentified motorist who stopped to help a hurt and bleeding Jeffrey A. White and may be able to shed more light on the incident.
Ashland post Sgt. Jennifer Burkhart said the mysterious passerby found the 40-year-old Perrysville man around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, as he lay unconscious next to a township dump truck, bleeding from the head. Traffic cones and “Road Closed Ahead” signs were posted nearby.
White was transported to Samaritan Hospital in Ashland by the Green-Perrysville Emergency Squad and later flown by helicopter to MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland. Burkhart said hospital officials reported White as unresponsive and in critical condition in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit on Thursday afternoon.
The initial investigation found that White and co-worker David Christine were cleaning up after a crew from Cline Brothers Tree Service trimmed trees along the rural road. According to Burkhart, Christine had gone to the township garage in another vehicle to retrieve some straps to secure the load. He returned to find the unknown motorist with White.
Burkhart said the passerby was gone by the time the investigating trooper arrived and that neither Christine nor the tree crew had noted the man’s license plate number. Witnesses said the man was driving a blue Dodge vehicle that could have been a van or a pickup.
Burkhart said the three-person tree crew was working about 500 feet ahead of the township workers and didn’t see what happened, although one of them put in the call to 9-1-1.
Green Township Fiscal Officer Andrea Purcell said White has been a full-time employee for more than four years. She said it was her understanding that Cline Brothers was contracted by the local electric company and confirmed the township was doing clean-up work.
Anyone with information should call the Ashland post at 419-289-0911.
April 10, 2009
Mystery man sought after worker injured in Ashland Co.
BY AL LAWRENCE
News Journal correspondent
ASHLAND — The Ohio Highway Patrol is still trying to determine how a Green Township worker was injured Tuesday while cleaning up after a tree trimming crew on Township Road 2704 near Perrysville.
Troopers say they are looking for an unidentified motorist who stopped to help a hurt and bleeding Jeffrey A. White and may be able to shed more light on the incident.
Ashland post Sgt. Jennifer Burkhart said the mysterious passerby found the 40-year-old Perrysville man around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, as he lay unconscious next to a township dump truck, bleeding from the head. Traffic cones and “Road Closed Ahead” signs were posted nearby.
White was transported to Samaritan Hospital in Ashland by the Green-Perrysville Emergency Squad and later flown by helicopter to MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland. Burkhart said hospital officials reported White as unresponsive and in critical condition in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit on Thursday afternoon.
The initial investigation found that White and co-worker David Christine were cleaning up after a crew from Cline Brothers Tree Service trimmed trees along the rural road. According to Burkhart, Christine had gone to the township garage in another vehicle to retrieve some straps to secure the load. He returned to find the unknown motorist with White.
Burkhart said the passerby was gone by the time the investigating trooper arrived and that neither Christine nor the tree crew had noted the man’s license plate number. Witnesses said the man was driving a blue Dodge vehicle that could have been a van or a pickup.
Burkhart said the three-person tree crew was working about 500 feet ahead of the township workers and didn’t see what happened, although one of them put in the call to 9-1-1.
Green Township Fiscal Officer Andrea Purcell said White has been a full-time employee for more than four years. She said it was her understanding that Cline Brothers was contracted by the local electric company and confirmed the township was doing clean-up work.
Anyone with information should call the Ashland post at 419-289-0911.
