Helping the driver

First responders attempt to free the driver of a semi truck after he drove into a building at 201 W. Espy Street in Kenton Thursday morning.

According to a report from the Ohio State Highway Patrol’s Findlay post, Paul M. Doute, 73, of Lincoln Park, Mich., was traveling northbound on Fontaine Street, approaching Espy Street, at 9:50 a.m. when he went off the west side of the road. The semi truck struck a concrete barrier and a light pole before driving into the building.

Doute was taken to Hardin Memorial Hospital with incapacitating injuries and was cited for failure to maintain control. A security camera on the building captured the truck striking the building.

Times photo/Kendrick Jesionowski