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Rescuers free trapped man after 2-vehicle crash

CONCORD TWP — One person was taken to the hospital with minor injuries this morning after a two vehicle crash in the 900 block of Hooker Road.

Chicora Fire Chief Cody Craig said when emergency responders arrived on the scene they found one man — identified by a family member as John Smith, 59, of Concord Township — pinned inside his Dodge Ram pickup truck. Craig said firefighters had to cut the door off the truck to get Smith out of the vehicle, and he was subsequently taken to Butler Memorial Hospital with unspecified, minor injuries.

Smith's wife, Arlene, said her husband was complaining of hip pain and was placed in a neck brace before EMTs transported him.

Arlene Smith said she and her husband were on their way to Gaslight Campground in Emlenton Friday when his pickup, which he was driving east on Hooker Road behind a camper driven by Arlene Smith, was hit by a Honda Civic traveling west on the road just after 9 a.m. The impact pushed Smith's truck into a stone wall just off the road.

State police said they suspect speed and wet roads were factors in the crash. They did not immediately release the name of the Honda's driver, who Craig said refused medical treatment and did not appear to have been injured in the crash.

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