ALLIANCE —
A University of Mount Union faculty member and athletic training director was killed and four people were injured Tuesday night in a crash involving a university bus and a state snowplow.
The bus had been returning from a wrestling match at Ohio Northern University when the crash occurred.
Daniel M. Gorman, 52, of Fenbrook Avenue NE in Marlboro Township, was pronounced dead at Bucyrus Community Hospital, according to an Ohio Highway Patrol news release from the patrol’s Bucyrus post.
Four others were injured in the 11 p.m. crash, which occurred on U.S. Route 30 near milepost 3 in Crawford County as both vehicles were heading east, said Lt. Stephanie Norman. The injured include:
• Brad Kress, 19, of McKimm Avenue in Nimishillen Township
• Shawn Dreger, 26, of Overlook Drive in Alliance
• Courtney Perrino, 20, of Warren
• Mark Hawald, 28, of Chagrin Falls.
All of them were treated at the hospital for minor injuries and then released.
The crash involved an Ohio Department of Transportation plow truck driven by Troy J. Shawber, 41, of Galion, and the university bus, which was driven by Robert L. Lewis, 62, of Briarwood Street in Louisville, the news release said.
Patrol Lt. Stephanie Norman said the plow was clearing the left berm when the bus moved from the right lane into the left lane and collided with the plow. No citations were issued, and the Crawford County crash remains under investigation, Norman said Wednesday.
Shawber and Lewis were not injured.
A Mount Union campus alert issued at 2:56 a.m. Wednesday said the bus had been carrying the wrestling team, coaches, statisticians and athletic trainers. It said that Gorman, who was the athletic training director and associate professor of human performance and sport business, had joined the university in 1985. The alert also credited him with being “integral to the success” of the school’s CAATE-accredited athletic training program.
The alert said that counseling services staff members and the university chaplain would be available.
