YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning County Coroner’s Office has identified the pedestrian who was struck and killed on Loveland Road on Monday morning as Joseph Novacich, 53.

Meanwhile, the man who was driving the SUV that hit Novacich was captured shortly after the crash and was expected to be charged in Youngstown Municipal Court.

It is not known what type of charge or charges will be filed, but officials said the charges will reflect that the crash was an accident, not a purposeful killing.

Video of the crash and interviews of witnesses indicate that Novacich was walking south along the right side of Loveland Road near Pointview Avenue and Elmo’s Tire when a vehicle heading southeast on Powers Way traveled through the three-way intersection at Loveland, Buckeye Circle and Powers Way and moved into the left lane to pass a car in front of him.

The road curves to the right, and the driver was passing toward oncoming traffic when he encountered Novacich, who apparently saw the car coming straight at him. He turned to his right and tried to move quickly into a devil strip when he was struck.

A witness who saw the collision and aftermath close up, called what he saw “horrible. It really was. It was like a movie.” He was one of two people who were only about 30 feet away from Novacich when the collision occurred. “It was traumatizing,” the witness said.

Novacich flew upward toward the windshield and into the air, as the car continued south through a second front yard, then through a metal fence between that house and the next house. Novacich and the car came to rest in front of the third house. The vehicle stopped when it hit a trailer parked in the front yard.

The driver backed his car and reentered Loveland Road, one of the witnesses said.

The intersection has signs indicating that the speed in the intersection is 25 mph. It turns into a 35 mph area south of the intersection, but one witness said the driver was going 40 mph or 45 mph when he struck the pedestrian.

One of the close-up witnesses said there is certainly a problem with the intersection because there are two sets of tire marks in the front yard where Novacich was struck — one from Saturday night and the one from about 10:20 a.m. Monday morning when Novacich was killed.

The marks from Saturday night tore up grass and dirt and continued into the front yard where Novacich and the car that struck him came to rest. A parallel set of tire marks and markings placed by Youngstown police investigators can be seen next to them.

Both cars crashed into and over the same metal fence two houses over from where Novacich and the SUV that struck him came to rest.

A coroner’s news release states that the coroner’s office was notified at 10:40 a.m. of Novacich’s death. An autopsy was performed at the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office, and the incident remains under investigation by the coroner’s office and the Youngstown Police Department, the release states.

Public records show that Novacich’s address was on Valerie Drive not far from the crash scene. Multiple people in the neighborhood said Novacich had dropped off his car Monday morning at a nearby auto repair shop and was walking home when he was struck.