(Updated 6:45 a.m. 3-17) The Ohio Highway Patrol says a Michigan man’s suicide attempt was the cause of a
multi-vehicle accident on Interstate 75 north of Bowling Green late Wednesday afternoon.
The crashes tied traffic up for hours and sent several people to area hospitals.
The incident occurred at 4:18 when a 28-year-old Livonia, Mich., man was driving a rented 2010 Chevy
Cobalt. The OHP says Jared N. Charest drove into the median attempting to pass vehicles at a high rate
of speed causing a four-vehicle incident.
The vehicle continued on for about one-half mile before Charest exited and jumped into the path of a
semi. He was taken by air ambulance to St. Vincent’s Hospital in Toledo with non life-threatening
injuries.
Northbound traffic was backed up for several miles. At one point motorists were being prevented from
entering northbound I-75 at the Wooster Street ramp and northbound traffic was being directed off the
interstate at Wooster Street.
Traffic on alternate routes in and around Bowling Green was also backed up.
There was also some slowing of southbound traffic just south of Ohio 582.
Front page photo: An air ambulance leaves the scene of Wednesday’s accident on Interstate 75 north of
Bowling Green. (Enoch Wu/Sentinel-Tribune)

(Updated 6:45 a.m. 3-17) The Ohio Highway Patrol says a Michigan man’s suicide attempt was the cause of a
multi-vehicle accident on Interstate 75 north of Bowling Green late Wednesday afternoon.
The crashes tied traffic up for hours and sent several people to area hospitals.
The incident occurred at 4:18 when a 28-year-old Livonia, Mich., man was driving a rented 2010 Chevy
Cobalt. The OHP says Jared N. Charest drove into the median attempting to pass vehicles at a high rate
of speed causing a four-vehicle incident.
The vehicle continued on for about one-half mile before Charest exited and jumped into the path of a
semi. He was taken by air ambulance to St. Vincent’s Hospital in Toledo with non life-threatening
injuries.
Northbound traffic was backed up for several miles. At one point motorists were being prevented from
entering northbound I-75 at the Wooster Street ramp and northbound traffic was being directed off the
interstate at Wooster Street.
Traffic on alternate routes in and around Bowling Green was also backed up.
There was also some slowing of southbound traffic just south of Ohio 582.
Front page photo: An air ambulance leaves the scene of Wednesday’s accident on Interstate 75 north of
Bowling Green. (Enoch Wu/Sentinel-Tribune)