First responder struck, killed while assisting driver in Wayne County

A first responder is dead after he was struck by a vehicle while on the scene of another crash, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

Just before 10:40 p.m. on Friday, Lieutenant Paul Charles Mickolick with the Town and County Fire District responded to Stratton Road in Wooster after a vehicle, driven by a 33-year-old man, had gotten stuck in a ditch, OSHP said.

A short time later, a 64-year-old man who was driving a 2006 Cadillac CTS southbound on Stratton Road drove off the right side of the road into the ditch, striking Mickolick and the 33-year-old, OSHP said…

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