Troopers were assisted by fire crews from Harrison Twp., Huber Heights, Butler Twp., and Tipp City police officers from Vandalia, Huber Heights, Butler Twp. I can’t imagine what the families are going through.”Įmergency crews were called to the crash about 2:45 p.m. “Ten seconds sooner, we would have been hit. Maley was on his way to work in the Shelby County village of Anna when the accident occurred right in front of him. “I thought, ‘Oh my God what is going on?’ ” “I was in immediate shock,” Robert Maley said. No charges have been filed, the state patrol said.įriday night, a witness to the crash spoke with News Center 7′s Kosik. They were taken to Miami Valley Hospital by ground ambulance. Kiefer told Kosik that a smaller SUV was trapped between the semitrailers and another vehicle was also pinned between the semi and the concrete wall.įerguson, Mathieu and Barhorst suffered non-life-threatening injuries. The identity of that driver is unknown at this time, the patrol said. The driver of that car died at the scene. The semi and the “additional passenger car” that had been in the northbound lanes caught fire. > RELATED: Here’s what’s being done to get traffic moving around deadly I-75 crash in Butler Twp. The ramp from I-70 to I-75 North is also back open.Īll lanes of Northbound I-75 reopened just after 2:30 a.m. Southbound I-75 was closed approximately three hours but reopened after 5:30 p.m. Debris from that wall struck a southbound Camaro driven by Terrance Toth, 71, of Tipp City. Pieces of the barrier wall were knocked into the southbound lanes of I-75 and fire crews struggled with putting out the flames because one of the semis was carrying cardboard. “That vehicle was pushed along the wall and the semi went into the wall.”Īfter the semi hit the three northbound vehicles, it struck a concrete median barrier wall. Rodney Kiefer told News Center 7′s Haley Kosik earlier Friday afternoon. “A semi was entering Northbound Interstate 75 (from I-70) when it went off the entrance ramp through the grassy area and came back on to the pavement and struck a vehicle going north,” patrol Sgt. Ferguson’s rig hit three northbound vehicles - another semi driven by Ntunzwenimana Mathieu, 38, of Dallas, Texas a Honda Civic driven by Clayton Barhorst, 23, of Lebanon and a vehicle identified by the patrol as an “additional passenger car.” The semi that triggered the collisions was driven by Lilemon Ferguson, 59, of Columbus. > PHOTOS: Fiery crash shuts down I-75 at I-70 INITIAL REPORT: Traffic on Northbound Interstate 75 at I-70 is moving again after a semitrailer on the ramp from I-70 West to I-75 North went off the left side of the ramp, through grass, and into the northbound lanes of I-75 where it struck four vehicles, the Dayton Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol said.
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