Friday, April 27, 2012

WHIOtv.com: Man Identified in Fatal Preble County Crash

Thursday night saw another fatal accident in our extended area.

Samuel J Hammond, 50, of New Paris, died following a violent single car accident on Georgetown Verona Road in Preble County. The article cites the Highway Patrol as saying the car could have been traveling in excess of 80 mph at the time of the crash, which saw the car go off the right side of the road, over correct, and travel across the left side of the road and down an embankment where the car then nose dived on a 20 foot drop into the creek bed, after which the car then rolled several times.

The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

Click on the image below for the story and video from WHIOtv.com.


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