CLARK COUNTY — Care Flight was called to a crash involving four teenage girls, all too young to have their licenses, that shut down a street in Clark County for hours.
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As previously reported on News Center 7 at 6, the crash happened on E Pitchin Road around 3:30 p.m.
The driver, who is 14, lost control of the car, crossed the center line and left the opposite side of the road, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol. The car then struck a fence and continued into the tree line, OSHP says.
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“It’s really sad,” Kevin Huff said.
Huff was at a lake off Pitchin Road when the crash happened.
“My brothers asked me if I heard this loud, like, skid mark and then a bang, bang. I said ‘No.’ I said I didn’t.”
All four of the people in the car were injured. Three sustained minor injuries, and one was taken by medical helicopter to the Miami Valley Hospital, OSHP says.
Huff says he is glad all the girls are being treated and cared for, and says he knows how dangerous a ‘joy ride’ can be.
“It may seem [like] fun and games to do something like that,” Huff said. “But when somebody’s critically injured…”
The car’s back window was completely blown out and the front end and windshield were smashed.
Troopers are still determining what factors contributed to the crash, but Huff says accidents in this area are not uncommon.
“There’s a lot of just, unnecessary speed,” Huff said. “A lot of accidents.”
Investigators are reaching out to the Clark County Prosecutor’s Office to determine what the next steps are for this case.
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