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29-year-old dead after crash on I-75 SB in Shelby Co.

SHELBY COUNTY — UPDATE @ 11:50 a.m.:

A 29-year-old is dead after a crash on I-75 in Shelby County Friday morning.

We are working to learn more. We will have the latest details LIVE on News Center 7 at 5:00.

As News Center 7 previously reported, around 7 a.m. Ohio State Highway Patrol was called to a crash on I-75 southbound just north of the Fair Road Exit.

An initial investigation found a 2019 Ford Transit, driven by Damien Webb, 29, Cardington, was traveling south of I-75 just north of the Fair Road exit when they hit the back of a 2013 Freightliner tractor-trailer driven by Irwin Hatfield, 69, of Anna.

The Freightliner had stopped due to traffic from a separate serious injury crash earlier in the morning, according to OSP.

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After crashing into the Freightliner, Webb was thrown from their car.

Webb died from their injuries.

Hatfield said they were not hurt.

The crash remains under investigation.


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