COLUMBUS, Ohio — A man is dead after crashing a car into a quarry in west Columbus on Friday.
According to Columbus Division of Fire Battalion Chief Jeff Geitter, 86-year-old Roderick Matheson was traveling on West 5th Avenue around 7:30 p.m. when he drove straight through the McKinley Avenue intersection, vaulted up and over an embankment, flipped onto his top, fell down a cliff and into the quarry.
Matheson was taken to Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in critical condition, where he pronounced dead at 8:42 p.m.
It's unclear what caused the driver to crash into the quarry.