U.S. 24 crash kills Defiance resident

10/29/2003

DEFIANCE - A Defiance man was killed Monday night in a two-vehicle crash on U.S. 24, a mile east of here, the Ohio Highway Patrol said.

Samuel Tuohy, 21, was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the second vehicle, Catrena Taylor, 40, of Maumee, was listed in fair condition yesterday in Toledo Hospital.

Mr. Tuohy was driving a sport utility vehicle westbound at 10:18 p.m. on U.S. 24. Ms. Taylor was headed eastbound in a van. Ms. Taylor drove left of center, striking Mr. Tuohy's vehicle, troopers at the patrol's Defiance post said.

The accident remains under investigation.