A pickup truck flipped over July 17, 2015, in the 3900 block of Corry Road near Bowersville. (Andy Sedlak/Staff)
Updated: 11:23 p.m. Friday, July 17, 2015 | Posted: 8:12 p.m. Friday, July 17, 2015
Breaking News Staff
JEFFERSON TWP., Greene County —
UPDATE @ 11:25 p.m.
Two young men inside a pickup that flipped over tonight had been drinking, speeding and weren’t wearing seat belts, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
Now, troopers say 21-year-old Kyle Minix of Bowersville is seriously injured but lucky to survive the rollover crash reported around 7:45 p.m. along Corry Road between Bowersville and Wilmington.
Minix’s passenger, a 20-year-old man, was not injured.
Trooper Jason Kelly said Minix lost control traveling north on Corry Road after going off the right side of the road, striking a mailbox and overcorrecting, then going off the left side of the road and flipping over twice. Fishing poles, beer cases were among debris thrown from the pickup.
“The passenger did admit drinking himself, and he was with the driver who was drinking as well,” Kelly said.
“He went as far to say he didn’t feel comfortable with the driver drinking and suggested several times to stop and sober up,” Kelly said of the passenger.
Minix was taken by medical helicopter to Kettering Medical Center, Kelly said. No condition information was available fron the hospital late Saturday.
UPDATE @ 9:45 p.m.
A 21-year-old Bowersville man was seriously injured tonight in a rollover crash along Corry Road.
The crash was reported around 7:45 p.m. after passersby spotted an overturned pickup in a field.
“They lost control,” said Brandon Minix of Bowersville, who said his brother, Kyle — three days shy of his 22nd birthday — was flown to an area hospital. A second man riding in the pickup was not hurt in the single-vehicle crash, he said.
Minix said as soon as he heard about the crash, he went out to the scene.
“I broke down,” he said about seeing the wrecked pickup. “They told us when they hauled him out he had a good pulse … they said he had a good chance and was lucky to be alive.”
FIRST REPORT
A medical helicopter was called tonight to a serious rollover crash.
A pickup truck was on its top in the crash reported around 7:45 p.m. in the 3900 block of Corry Road.
CareFlight responded for at least one of two people injured in the crash.
The names and conditions of those involved in the crash was not immediately available.