Policeman recognized for heroic action; Coates awarded Life Saving Award for quick action in emergency

A man “on the floor bleeding to death” was the sight Streetsboro Police Officer Aaron Coates encountered when he responded to an April 11 EMS call that was close to his location near Route 14.

Coates said the man in his 30s was lying on the floor of his garage, bleeding profusely from a severe neck wound he received when a piece of his truck engine’s fan blade broke off and struck him while he was working on it.

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