TOLEDO, Ohio — UPDATE: This story has been updated to reflect new information from a Toledo police report Thursday afternoon.
Toledo Fire & Rescue crews responded to an injury crash early Thursday that resulted in a fatality.
Crews arrived at the intersection of north Reynolds Road and Dorr Street shortly after midnight and located a vehicle that had crashed into a pole. According to a Toledo police report, 31-year-old James Allen Young II was traveling north on Reynolds at a high speed in a Hyundai Sonata approaching Dorr Street.
Witnesses told police Young failed to negotiate a leftward curve in the road, causing the vehicle to run off the roadway to the right, go over the curb, and strike one of three steel and concrete poles that were protecting a large wooden utility pole. The vehicle maintained enough velocity that it also struck the utility pole.
Rescuers were able to extricate the man from the vehicle and transported him to the hospital for severe injuries. He later succumbed to those injuries sometime Thursday morning.
A man who witnessed the crash from a nearby gas station described the incident.
"I was actually just stepping out of my passenger door here, started hearing a car speeding up on Reynolds over here and then immediately after that we heard the impact," he said. "It sounded like a bomb going off, legit. We felt it in our car".
Debris from the accident was scattered throughout the gas station parking lot.
Authorities called an accident investigator to the scene, as well as Toledo Edison for repairs to the pole.
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