CANFIELD, Ohio (WKBN) - An Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper was killed Thursday while assisting a disabled semi on State Route 11 in Mahoning County.
Trooper Nicholas Cayton was responding about 11:52 a.m. to a disabled semi on State Route 11 northbound (in the right lane), just south of U.S. Route 224, after the truck had struck an item on the road.
While at the scene, Trooper Cayton was sitting in his cruiser with the emergency lights on when a 2007 Mack Granite truck crashed into the back of the cruiser, forcing it into the back of the disabled semi, also striking the driver of the semi, 65-year-old Nelson De Jesus Herrera Vasquez, who was standing outside of the truck.
Cayton was pronounced dead at the scene, and Vasquez, who is from Florida, was flown by medical helicopter to a ne