Grafton Township ambulance crash kills one – Ohio

From WEWS

One person was killed in a crash involving an ambulance Wednesday afternoon.

The Elyria Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol said a Grafton Township ambulance was going south on Island Road when it hit a Chevrolet Cavalier at the intersection of state Route 303, just after noon.

The driver of the Cavalier, 82-year-old Zygmunt Pacyna, of Hinckley, was pronounced dead at the scene.

The driver of the ambulance, 26-year-old Richard Robertson, of Cleveland, and a passenger, 52-year-old Thomas Smolilo, of Grafton were taken to area hospitals. There was a patient in the ambulance at the time of the crash. Robert Kowalski, 61, of Grafton, was taken by another ambulance to Medina General Hopsital.

The crash is still under investigation.