4/26/19 – 5:22 A.M.

A car hit Findlay City Councilman Grant Russel while he was crossing the street in downtown Thursday night. The Findlay Police Department says Russel was crossing South Main Street at the East Lima Street intersection just after 6 p.m. when a car driven by 84-year-old Gottfriede Fuerst of Findlay hit him. Fuerst was trying to turn right onto East Lima Street at the time.

Russel went to Blanchard Valley Hospital for treatment of minor injuries. Officers cited Fuerst for failure to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk.

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