A state trooper and a motorist involved in a previous single-vehicle crash suffered minor injuries Friday morning when another driver’s Tesla 3 hit the trooper’s cruiser, the Ohio State Highway Patrol reported.

Trooper Jacob Teal, 39, and motorist Makenzy Duncan, 16, of Grand Rapids, Ohio were taken by ambulance to McLaren St. Luke’s Hospital in Maumee for treatment, the highway patrol reported.

The Tesla’s driver, Colte Fish, 32, of Perrysburg, was unhurt. According to the report, his vehicle struck the rear of Trooper Teal’s Chevrolet Tahoe cruiser, which was stopped in the eastbound left lane near U.S. 24’s Milepost 64 — near Waterville-Monclova Road — with its emergency lights flashing.

Trooper Teal was gathering information about the crash involving the Duncan vehicle, a Cadillac sedan that had come to rest in the roadway after hitting a guardrail, troopers said. Miss Duncan was in the cruiser at the time of the second collision.

No charges were immediately announced and the crashes remained under investigation later Friday. The patrol’s report did not address whether any of the Tesla’s automated-driving features were in use. U.S. 24’s eastbound lanes were closed for less than an hour in the area.

First Published November 18, 2022, 10:37 p.m.