COLUMBUS – A 62-year-old woman and a five-year-old girl were taken to hospitals early Saturday after an SUV driven by a man who fled the scene crashed through their Southwest Side mobile home, according to the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office.
The driver of a black 2006 Chevrolet Trailblazer lost control of the vehicle while traveling westbound on Greenlawn Avenue, west of Harmon Avenue, in Franklin Township, at 1:11 a.m. and went off the right side of the roadway before crossing back over and driving off the left side of the roadway and crashing through a fence, Sheriff Dallas Baldwin said.
The SUV the drove through a mobile home where Baldwin says Judith Wade, 62, and Lilliana Kontul, 5, were struck by the vehicle when it entered the structure.
Wade was transported to Grant Hospital in critical condition and Kontul was taken to Nationwide Children’s Hospital in stable condition, Baldwin said.
After crashing through the mobile home, the SUV struck a 2013 Chrysler Town and Country which was parked and unoccupied, Baldwin saud
The driver of the Trailblazer, described as a heavyset black man, left the scene on foot, Baldwin said.
Anyone with any information about the driver is asked to contact the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office Accident Investigations Unit at 614-525-6113 or the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office Radio Room at 614-525-3333.
The incident remains under investigation.