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UPDATE | Traficant 'critical;' doctors to make determination within 72 hours

• vindy.com

The former congressman, 73, is "sedated and he's not doing well," his wife told The Vindicator a few minutes before heading back to the St. Elizabeth Health Center in Youngstown, where he was taken after first being rushed to Salem Regional Hospital.Traficant was driving a 1943 Ford tractor about 7:50 p.m. Tuesday at his family farm on West South Range Road about 140 feet into a large pole barn when the vehicle struck a large steel blade on the ground, said Goshen Police Chief Steve T. McDaniel.That caused the tractor to flip with Traficant still in the vehicle's seat, but trapped with the tractor on top of him, McDaniel said.Andrew Thomson of Mercer, Pa., was looking at farm equipment with Traficant, when he saw Traficant go into the barn and was talking with the former congressman.


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