(9-25-23) On Sunday evening just after 6pm Van Wert County Sheriff’s Deputies along with the Willshire Fire, Wren EMS, Van Wert EMS, and Lutheran Air responded to a motor vehicle crash on State Route 49 in Willshire Township.

The Sheriff’s Office received a call in reference to a 14-year-old teen that had crashed on his three-wheeler and was unable to feel or move his body. Upon arrival at 6:31 pm the teen was loaded up and taken away in Life Flight.

According to the police report the teen was traveling westbound at an unknown speed through the trails Southeast of the Intersection of State Route 49 and State Route 81.

The incident remains under investigation.