SHEFFIELD TWP. — Two people were flown to a Cleveland hospital around noon today, one of them a Garfield Elementary School teacher, after a head-on car crash about 11 a.m. on Broadway in Sheffield Township.
Naomi Pagan, age unknown, was returning from a meeting around 11:30 a.m. and was heading north on Broadway when her black minivan was struck head-on, according to school board President Tony Dimacchia.
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She was hit by a white pickup truck driven by Joe Poyna, 47, of Strongsville. Matt Poyma, 20, of Strongsville, his son, was with him in the truck. Matt Poyma was taken to Avon Emergency Care Center via ambulance, but no one at Avon ER had information about him.
Joe Poyma’s wife, who didn’t give her name, was at Clearview High School in Lorain where LifeFlight helicopters landed to transport her husband and Pagan. She said Matt Poyma had just returned home from college in San Diego and was with his father for their first day of a construction job.
Unconfirmed reports have the father-son team working on the new Sheffield Township Fire Department Building located just yards from the accident scene, which had debris scattered for several yards.
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