TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) – Mayor D. Michael Collins died Friday, five days after suffering cardiac arrest while driving during a snowstorm. He was 70.
City spokeswoman Stacy Weber confirmed Collins died at the University of Toledo Medical Center.
Collins crashed his SUV into a utility pole on Sunday afternoon after his heart stopped beating, doctors and city officials said. He had earlier attended a news conference about the city’s response to the storm and may have been checking road conditions.
Two passers-by found him unconscious and had to break a car window so they could give him CPR until emergency workers arrived.
Collins, who was thrust into the spotlight over the summer when the city’s water supply was contaminated by toxins in Lake Erie, had just completed his first year as mayor of Ohio’s fourth largest city.