FOSTORIA, Ohio — One person is dead and another is hospitalized with serious injuries after a single-vehicle crash Tuesday night in Fostoria.
The driver of a pickup truck lost control at a curve on Van Buren Street, drove off the road and through the ProMedica Fostoria Community Hospital parking lot before hitting the building, according to a preliminary investigation by the Ohio State Highway Patrol. The crash happened around 6:40 p.m. Tuesday.
The driver, who authorities identified as 58-year-old Howard Stevenson, of Bloomdale, was taken into the hospital before being transferred to a Toledo hospital by air ambulance following the crash.
Howard Stevenson's passenger, identified by authorities as 55-year-old Penny Stevenson, of Bloomdale, died at the hospital.
Neither was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash, OSHP said.
The crash remains under investigation.
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