Ohio business reporter in critical condition

A Columbus Dispatch business reporter and avid bicyclist was struck and injured by a car Sunday while riding.

Jim Woods and Kathy Lynn Gray of the Dispatch write, “Steve Wartenberg, 55, was in critical condition in intensive care last night at OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital with multiple broken bones.

“Wartenberg was hit about 11:44 a.m. on McCoy Road near Kenny Road. He hit the windshield of the car before landing on the pavement. His helmet and bicycle were in pieces, said his wife, Susan Cunningham.

“‘I’m sure his helmet saved his life,’ she said.

“Upper Arlington Police Sgt. Glenn Willer said Wartenberg was eastbound on McCoy Road when he was struck from behind just west of Kenny Road by a vehicle driven by Andrew Scott Inglis, who also was eastbound on McCoy.

“Willer said Inglis, 30, fled the scene and was captured a few minutes later. He has been cited for drunken driving, failing to keep an assured clear distance and fleeing the scene, Willer said.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.