BROWN COUNTY, Ohio — A 19-year-old Bethel man was killed and two other men were seriously injured Sunday evening when a pickup struck a trailer attached to a disabled vehicle they were repairing on a Brown County road, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
The crash happened just after 6 p.m. on Sunday, November 1, on Liming Van Thompson Road near Yankeetown Road in Clark Township, the patrol said, in reporting by WHIO News Center 7 and the Cincinnati Enquirer. The three men had been standing in the roadway working to repair a disabled 2007 Nissan Pathfinder when the crash occurred, according to the patrol.
A preliminary investigation found that Wilson D. Adams, 65, of Hamersville, was driving a 1999 GMC Sonoma south on Liming Van Thompson Road when he struck the trailer attached to the Pathfinder, the patrol told the Cincinnati Enquirer. The impact pushed the Pathfinder forward, striking Jeffrey D. Saylor, 70, of Hamersville, and Jordan C. Greenwell, 19, of Bethel, according to the patrol.
The Pathfinder also struck Shane M. Hull, 19, of Bethel, pinning him against a 2022 Ford F-150 that was parked in the roadway, the patrol said, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. WHIO News Center 7, reporting a patrol spokesperson, carried the same account of the three men being struck while they worked on the disabled vehicle.
Hull suffered fatal injuries and was taken by ambulance to Mercy Health-Mount Orab Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, according to the patrol. Saylor and Greenwell were taken to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center with serious injuries, the patrol said. Adams was not injured.
The Brown County Sheriff’s Office, Hamersville Fire & EMS, the Bethel-Tate Fire Department, Mount Orab EMS and Air Evac EMS personnel assisted the Georgetown Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol at the scene, according to the patrol’s account reported by the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The crash remains under investigation by the Ohio State Highway Patrol. Troopers had not announced any charges in the reports published Monday morning, and no road closure was reported in either outlet’s account.
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