The Ohio State Highway Patrol honored a trooper who was killed while in the line of duty Thursday morning in Canfield, Ohio, about 20 minutes southwest of Youngstown, according to OSHP.
Around 11:52 a.m., Trooper Nicholas P. Cayton, 40, responded to State Route 11 northbound, south of U.S. 244 for reports of a disabled 2024 Kenworth semi tractor-trailer, OSHP said.
Officials said that as Cayton was sitting in his marked vehicle with his emergency overhead lights activated, a 2007 Mack Granite truck slammed into his cruiser, pushing it to the back of the tractor-trailer on the side of the road, injuring the man Cayton was assisting.
Cayton died on the scene, according to the patrol. The man he helped was life-flighted to a nearby hospital for treatment.
The man driving the Mack truck was uninjured, officials said.
The crash remains under investigation.
