WEST SALEM — An emergency responder was killed on Friday night while assisting a motorist in Congress Township, according to the Wooster Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
Lieutenant Paul Charles Mickolick, 43, with the Town and County Fire District, died as a result of his injuries, the Patrol reported. He was one of two people struck by a passing motorist.
Tylor James Green, 33, of West Salem, was ground transported to the Cleveland Clinic Lodi Hospital by Town and County Fire and EMS. Green was later flown by helicopter to Akron General with serious injuries.
The Patrol reported the incident took place at 10:39 p.m. on Stratton Road, just south of Jeffrey Road in Congress Township of Wayne County.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol received a report of a Ford F-150, operated by Green, that had gotten stuck in a ditch while exiting a private field on the west side of Stratton Road.
Mickolick arrived on scene in his personal vehicle to assist, parking on the west side of the roadway near the F-150.
The Patrol stated that a 2006 Cadillac CTS, operated by Creighton L. Trimble, 64, of West Salem, was southbound on Stratton Road when he drove off the right side of the roadway
into the ditch, striking the F-150 as well as Green and Mickolick, who were standing near the F-150.
Lieutenant Mickolick worked as a Flight Paramedic with the Cleveland Clinic prior to joining the Town and County Fire District as a full-time Firefighter Paramedic in 2022.
Assisting on scene were the Wayne County She riff’s Office, Town and Country Fire District, New Pittsburg Fire and EMS, Lodi Fire and EMS, and Bear’s Towing and Repair.
The crash remains under investigation.