WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP — UPDATE @6:45 a.m.
A man was taken to hospital and cited after driving an SUV into Washington Township early Sunday morning.
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Sheriff’s deputies responded to reports of a car into a pond on Miller Farm Lane at Isabell Circle at 1:05 a.m., according to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office.
Dispatchers originally told News Center 7 that they responded to a crash on Pond Meadows Court.
Before deputies arrived, the 35-year-old driver exited from a 2021 Dodge Durango and a friend took him to a nearby residence.
The man suffered a broken leg and other non-life-threatening injuries, the sheriff’s office said.
A preliminary investigation revealed that the driver was traveling southbound on Miller Farm Lane at a high rate of speed and failed to maintain control of his SUV. He drove off the road and hit a small tree before going into the pond.
Medics transported the driver to Kettering Health-Main Campus. He was cited for Failure to Maintain Reasonable Control of his vehicle.
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Deputies are investigating after a vehicle crashed into a pond in Washington Township early Sunday morning.
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Montgomery County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched at 1:05 a.m. to the 300 block of Pond Meadows Court on initial reports that a vehicle crashed into a pond.
Dispatchers tell News Center 7 that deputies are on the scene, but no other information is available.
We will update this story.
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