WOOD COUNTY, Ohio — Two people are hospitalized after a serious crash Monday afternoon in Lake Township.
Troopers responded to the two-vehicle crash on Luckey Road at Hanley Road just before 2:30 p.m. Monday, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
Phyllis Ashworth, 77, of Millbury, was heading westbound on Hanley Road and stopped at the stop sign at Luckey Road. Ashworth failed to yield to the right-of-way at the stop sign and struck a pickup truck heading southbound on Luckey Road, OSHP said.
The driver of the pickup truck, 21-year-old Justin W. Werner, of Perrysburg, traveled off the roadway and struck a street sign before over-correcting and hitting a utility pole on the opposite side.
Werner was taken to a Toledo-area hospital by air ambulance with life-threatening injuries. He was not wearing a seat belt a the time of the crash, OSHP said.
Ashworth was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The crash remains under investigation.
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