Reply #55: "Witnesses told police that Coleman swerved to avoid a van and her [View All]

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car hit(sideswiped) the pickup truck. A police report said Coleman failed to control her vehicle and hit the truck on its left side...

In late April and early May, Coleman tussled with syndicated radio host Glenn Beck and stayed away from a convention of black mayors' session in Columbus after the group invited Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.

Coleman also saw his chief political adviser arrested on a drunken-driving charge.

This month, Frankie Coleman was invited but later declined to present a proclamation welcoming the Rev. Rod Parsley's Reformation Ohio, a conservative Christian group, to the city.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/localnews/daily/1021mayorweb.html

http://www.colemanforohio2006.com/


"...A neighbor who witnessed the accident notified Bexley police, said Sgt. Tony Martin. He said Coleman was alone in the car and she did not ask for or receive any special treatment.

Often considered one of the mayor's greatest assets, Frankie Coleman has endured difficulties over the past few years. After a 2002 battle with breast cancer, friends said, she struggled again when her son, J.D., headed to Iraq with the Marine Reserves Lima Company, a Brook Park-based battalion that lost 48 members and had 150 wounded.

The deaths included 14 Marines killed in back-to-back attacks within a week over the summer. In August, with J.D. still in Iraq, her father died.

J.D. is now home and accompanied the mayor to the police station to pick up his mother. "

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1129973774144530.xml&coll=2