Staff report
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The Crawford County Sheriff’s Office has released the identities of the people involved in Sunday evening’s fatal accident on U.S. 30.
Seventy-seven-year-old Eugene Bergner of Loudonville was the individual who was hit and killed trying to retrieve his dog which had gotten loose when he and his passenger, 80-year-old Barbara Hamilton, stopped in the eastbound lanes of the four-lane highway east of Lincoln Highway exit to let the dog out.
The driver of the minivan which struck and killed Bergner and his dog was 43-year-old Douglas Obanion of Mansfield.
Dr. Grant Hope declared Bergner to be deceased at the scene.