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Updated: 7:06 PM Jan 22, 2008
Five Vehicles Wreck on Ohio Route 7
WTAP News A wreck with a truck hauling a dirt track race car sends three to area hospitals. Posted: 11:12 PM Jan 21, 2008Reporter: Kirk Greenfield Email Address: Kirk.Greenfield@wtap.com |
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A five vehicle crash was reported about 6 p.m. Monday on Ohio Route 7, two miles south of Coolville in Athens County.
Ohio Highway Patrol Sgt. Max Norris says the crash started when a truck pulling a dirt track race car on a flatbed trailer was waiting to turn left off Ohio Route 7.
That's when a camaro, driven by Andrew Upton of Reedsville rear ended them at high speed.... slamming into the trailer being towed by Jerry Swain of Coolville.
The camaro lifted the race car off the trailer as it plowed underneath it.
The trailer skewed into the oncoming lane where it was hit again by a passing Jeep Cherokee.
The Jeep lost its front wheel and driver's door, rolled several times and landed in a field.
"The driver of the car, (the camaro,) that was southbound, " explains Sgt. Max Norris of the State Highway Patrol, "... was taken to Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital, and the driver and passenger in the truck, were not injured."
The driver of the Jeep, Jodi Dagney of Point Pleasant, was flown to a Huntington hospital, while her passenger, Patricia Call, was taken to Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital.
The driver of the white camaro, Andrew Upton, was also taken to Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital.
The people in the red pick-up were not injured, though their truck suffered a blow-out.
A police report says charges are pending.
