COLUMBUS, Ohio – Five people, including a two-year-old child, were killed and four others hurt in two separate crashes in central Ohio Sunday.
Three people died and three others were injured in a two-vehicle crash on a dark Union County roadway Sunday night.
The accident happened just before 8:30 p.m. when a Mercury Mountaineer crashed head-on into Pontiac Bonneville on U.S. route 33 between Rosedale Road and state Route 38 in southern Union County, Sheriff Jamie Patton said.
One of the vehicles, reportedly the car, was occupied by a family of four.
Patton says Joshua Fraley, 30, and Easton Fraley, 2, both of Mechanicsburg were killed at the scene along with Olivia Aicher, 17, of Dublin.
A child was taken by ambulance to Nationwide Children’s Hospital and two adult victims were taken by medical helicopter to OSU Wexner Medical Center and Grant Medical Center, Patton said.
There was no information Monday morning on the conditions of the injured victims.
The accident came hours after two people were killed and another was critically injured in a head-on crash in Fairfield County.
Christeni Downs, 38, of Chillicothe, and Robert Kaelbi, 77, of Orient, were killed just after 2:30 a.m. when Kaelbi’s Toyota Camry went left of center on U.S. route 22 and hit Downs’s Honda Civic head-on, Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers said.
The accident happened just west of state Route 159.
A passenger in Downs’s car – 23-year-old Tamara Holcomb, of Chillicothe – was injured and was taken via MedFlight helicopter to OSU Medical Center where she was listed in critical condition.
The accident is still under investigation and troopers say it does not appear that alcohol was a factor.