A car flipped over early Thursday on Youngstown's East Side near Albert Street, leaving one person injured and hospitalized while crews worked to clear the wreckage from the roadway. Police found the vehicle upside down with its lights still on, and the crash also damaged a sign before traffic could get moving again.
According to WFMJ, a dispatcher received a call just after 12:30 a.m. reporting a car on its roof along the Himrod Expressway near Albert Street. Officers arriving on scene found the car upside down along the road, its headlights still shining into the dark. The outlet reported that one person was injured and taken to a hospital, and police said that person was in stable condition at last report.
A separate account from wkbn.com described a Jeep flipping on Himrod Avenue just before 1 a.m. in the northbound lane, coming to rest in the grass beside the road. That report said it could not confirm how many people were in the vehicle, whether anyone was hurt, or what caused the crash. The two accounts differ on some basic details of the incident, including the exact time, the roadway and lane involved, and whether injuries were confirmed — a discrepancy that remains unresolved.
Road Reopened After Lanes Were Blocked
The crash forced a temporary closure of part of the roadway while crews worked the scene. WFMJ's report said the expressway's eastbound lanes were shut down until the wreckage could be towed away, while the station's report of the Himrod Avenue crash said police had to shut down both lanes briefly as crews cleared the area. By the time crews finished, the road had reopened, according to the same account.
Traffic investigators were still working to determine what caused the crash, per WFMJ. No information on the driver's identity, age, or the vehicle's owner was available, and the cause of the rollover had not been established as of the initial reporting.
Not the First Rollover Near Himrod Avenue
Rollovers aren't unheard of in this stretch of Youngstown's East Side. In a separate, earlier incident, a car rolled over near a Youngstown entrance ramp on Himrod Avenue on a Tuesday afternoon, with police and firefighters responding to the 500 block around 1:30 p.m., per the same account. In that case, the driver was initially trapped inside the vehicle but managed to get out and was seen walking around, with crews on scene saying the driver appeared to have only minor injuries.
Another nearby crash saw a Jeep driver lose control and strike a utility pole at Albert Street and Republic Avenue around 2 p.m. on a Friday, snapping the pole in half, wkbn.com reported. No one was hurt in that incident.
