(10-16-24) Yesterday at 6:27pm Van Wert County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to an area of Main Street in the Village of Venedocia for a report of a motor vehicle crash.

A John Deere X9 1100 combine pulling a header cart with a combine head on it, driven by Brock Profit of Van Wert, was turning north on to Main Street from Plum Street in Venedocia. The combine’s head sitting on the header cart then struck a guy wire on the west side of the road connected to an AEP power pole.

The trailing unit had minor damage to the front of the header. The guy wire did have some minor damage and the power pole had some minor damage. The trailing unit had to be removed from the guy wire before it was driven away from the scene.

Profit did not have any reported injuries. AEP was on scene to shut off the power and to make repairs to the damaged power pole.