Dayton men killed in crash involving wrong-way driver identified

HARRISON TOWNSHIP — A crash involving a wrong-way driver killed two Dayton men on I-75 early Sunday morning.

Darnell Hill, 38, and Joshua Davis, 33, were identified by the Ohio State Highway Patrol (OSHP) Monday afternoon as the two people killed in the crash on I-75 in Butler Twp.

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The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office and Ohio State Highway Patrol were dispatched to I-75 northbound near Needmore Road at 1:48 a.m. on reports of an injury crash.

An initial investigation showed that Hill was driving south in the left northbound lane in a 2006 Cadillac DTS when he hit Davis, who was heading north in the left lane in a 2010 Kia Forte, head-on.

After that crash, Hill’s car hit a 2017 Nissan Altima. The driver of that vehicle, a Troy man, was not injured in the crash.

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Hill and Davis both died on scene.

OSHP was assisted on scene by the Harrison Township Fire Department, Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, Vandalia Police Department, Ohio Department of Transportation and the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office.

The crash remains under investigation.

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