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Driver’s identity confuses officers at crash | News, Sports, Jobs

YOUNGSTOWN — A person identified as either Willow Eisenman or Jason Tray in court and jail records will be arraigned today in Youngstown Municipal Court on traffic violations after allegedly driving nearly 60 mph before of crashing into a dump truck on South Avenue in Youngstown. monday morning

The person is charged with reckless operation of a vehicle and obstructing official business.

A Youngstown police report states an officer saw a gray Hyundai traveling northbound on South Avenue at nearly 100 mph, driving left of center into oncoming traffic, stopping for traffic enforcement devices or vehicles and forcing some vehicles off the road.

Traffic was congested because it was 8:11 a.m., which is considered rush hour, the report said.

The officer activated his lights and siren to warn oncoming traffic. The officer did not follow the vehicle because it was so far ahead and because of the speed it was traveling, the report states. The officer saw the vehicle ignore several traffic lights en route to downtown.

When the police officer arrived downtown, he saw vehicles “scattered” on the South Avenue bridge, a dump truck carrying heavy equipment and the Hyundai crashed in front of the dump truck, the report said. Several witnesses detained the Hyundai driver in front of the car. The person told the officer he “liked to drive really fast and that’s all he did.”

No one was injured in the incident. The driver identified himself as Willow Eisenman, but the social security number matched a man, Jason Tray of Salem, the registered owner of the car. She said that was her husband, but other documents later indicated that Eisenman and Tray were the same person.

The officer arrested the driver on a misdemeanor charge and took the driver to the Mahoning County Jail.

The dump truck driver said the Hyundai drove up alongside the truck at an extremely high rate of speed and veered left into the truck, hitting the passenger side fuel tank and then going under the right front wheel. The truck was damaged.

Although Youngstown Municipal Court records list Willow A. Eisenman, 24, as charged with reckless operation and obstructing official business in an incident Monday in Youngstown, the person in the Mahoning County Jail on the same date of born Eisenman and charged with reckless operation. and obstructing official business is listed as Jason Tray, 24.

The person was booked into the Mahoning County Jail on Monday and was released later Monday, according to jail records.