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VIENNA. The Ohio State Highway Patrol Warren Post is investigating a fatal crash in the township.

A Ford Fusion with three people inside — driver Joshua Johnston, 36, of North Lima, and Miranda Zullo, 35, of Youngstown, and a juvenile — was southbound on Warner Road and approaching state Highway 82 at 8:13 p.m. Sunday, according to with news dismissal from office.

The passenger side of the vehicle struck an eastbound Subaru Crosstrek driven by Kathryn McMullin, 28, of Brookfield, because the Fusion failed to stop at a stop sign while entering the intersection, the release said.

The impact threw the Subaru Ford off the south side of the road into a ditch.

Zullo was pronounced dead at the scene and the juvenile was transported to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries from the crash. Johnston was taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown with non-life threatening injuries and McMullin with minor injuries.

Brookfield, Liberty and Vienna police and fire departments assisted at the scene.

According to the report, the occupants of the Ford were not wearing seat belts at the time of the accident.

The investigation of the accident is ongoing.

This is stated in the patrol report “Failure to yield at stop signs and traffic lights is a high-risk offense. When you run a red light or stop sign, remember to take extra time to look before entering an intersection by wearing your seat belts. An extra second will save your life.”

PREVIOUS FAILURES

This is the third fatal accident in less than a month involving passengers who were not wearing seat belts.

Shortly before 2 a.m. on Oct. 29, a 2006 Nissan XSterra occupied by Brittney Ulam, 35, of Niles, and Frank Walter, 31, of Cortland, left the side of the road, struck a culvert, overturned and left the road. a trip along the embankment. Neither passenger was wearing a seat belt, and both victims were ejected from the vehicle, troopers said. Alcohol and speed led to the accident, according to the patrol report.

While police and emergency responders were responding to the crash, a southbound 2014 Nissan Altima driven by Karen Bartone, 54, of Niles, struck Walter, killing him.

Ulam was seriously injured in the first accident. Both accidents are still under investigation.

About a week earlier, on Oct. 21, a Warren man was killed and a passenger was injured in a crash on Pine Avenue SE in Howland. Michael Campbell, 52, of Warren, died at the scene of the crash, and his passenger, Michael Kuhl, 50, of Milton, Florida, was critically injured.

Neither man was wearing a seat belt, and they were ejected from a northbound 2002 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am after it missed a curve, went off the left shoulder and struck a guardrail before ending up in ‘to go into the ditch and the forest. According to the report of the patrol officers, he overturned several times and stopped on the roof within the traffic lane on Sosnovy Prospect.

According to the patrol officers, speed, alcohol and drugs were probably the causes of the accident.