COLUMBUS, Ohio — A 40-year-old woman is dead and two others, including an 8-year-old, are injured after a crash in Pickaway County Thursday afternoon, according to the sheriff's office.
Deputies with the Pickaway County Sheriff's Office were called to U.S. Route 62 in Darby Township around 12:45 p.m. on a report of a semitrailer flipped over. The caller told the sheriff’s office that it had struck a pole and was smoking.
When deputies arrived on the scene, they found a 2019 Peterbilt semi that had crashed into a 2022 Hyundai.
During an investigation, the sheriff's office learned that the semi was traveling southbound on Route 62 when it hit the Hyundai in the southbound lane after the Hyundai went through the intersection at Five Points Pike.
Medics pronounced the driver of the Hyundai, Nicole Van Gundy, from Orient, dead at the scene. An 8-year-old in the Hyundai was taken to Nationwide Children’s Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The sheriff’s office said the driver of the semi was taken to Grant Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.
The crash remains under investigation.
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