OSHP Bucyrus District 2

• Bucyrus - 419-562-8040
• Sandusky - 419-625-6565
• Norwalk - 419-668-3711
• Marion - 740-383-2181
• Mansfield - 419-756-2222
• Fremont - 419-332-8246

Points of Interest

• Fatal crashes and crash fatalities in the Bucyrus District fell for the second year in a row. There were 61 fatal crashes in 2005, down from 75 in 2004. The number of alcohol-related fatal crashes fell 52 percent. The district is on track to meet the Patrol’s strategic goal of a fatality rate of one per 100 million vehicle miles traveled by the end of 2007.
• As part of the Patrol initiative to increase safety on route parallel to the Ohio Turnpike, an additional portable scales team was added to the district and a pilot assigned to cover the parallel routes. Commercial vehicle involvement in fatal crashes in the district fell from 20 in 2004 to 14 in 2005.
• The district combated impaired driving by continuing a partnership with the Ohio Investigative Unit to identify establishments that serve alcohol to intoxicated patrons and to provide those establishments with information about Ohio laws prohibiting such activity. There were five fewer alcohol-related fatalities in the district in 2005, a 30 percent reduction.
• Criminal patrol efforts were boosted by the additional of a second canine unit to the district. Bucyrus District troopers investigated more than 190 felony cases and recovered 69 stolen vehicles with apphrensions.
• All posts conducted Problem Site Identification programs during the year. For example, Norwalk troopers identified areas on State Route 18 and U.S. Route 250 were fatal crashes were occurring. Troopers increases enforcement while working with local officials to make the roads safer. The Huron County Engineer’s Office agreed to place some rumble strips and larger, reflective stop signs on county roads intersecting State Route 18, and the Ohio Department of Transportation installed rumble strips along the berm and center line of U.S. 250 to help prevent left-of-center crashes.