JACKSON TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WJW) – Video of the moment an Ohio state trooper was hit by a pickup truck that lost control on an icy bridge has been released. The trooper received minor injuries.
Trooper Tanner Guinther was at the scene of a one-vehicle crash on an ice-covered bridge on Interstate 71 North, near mile marker 193, just before 6 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 1, according to a news release from the patrol. That vehicle was just north of the County Road 175 bridge, in the median.
As Guinther was standing outside of his cruiser, a pickup truck operated by a 37-year-old driver from Carroll lost control on the bridge and struck Guinther’s cruiser, then went into the median and struck Guinther and the other crashed vehicle, a Jeep.
Guinther was taken to an Ashland hospital with minor injuries. He was treated and released. The driver of the pickup truck and the Jeep were not injured.
Watch the full video above.