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Interstate 71 truck crash kills Columbus man
News Journal staff report 4:24 p.m. EDT August 8, 2015
ASHLAND, OHIO
A 90-year-old Columbus man was killed during a two-vehicle crash Saturday morning.
Rush F. Moorer was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Ohio Highway Patrol's Ashland post.
The crash happened at 6:20 a.m. in the northbound lanes of Interstate 71 near milepost 185, just south of U.S. 250.
Moorer was heading north on I-71 in the center lane in a 1996 Ford F-350 box truck. Herbert J. Morris, 40, of Bedford Heights, also was northbound in a 2013 Freightliner tractor-trailer, traveling in the right lane.
Moorer moved into the right lane, into the path of Morris, troopers said. The tractor-trailer then struck Moorer's vehicle, sending it off the right side of I-71, where it overturned, troopers said.
The tractor-trailer also traveled off the right side of the road and came to rest in a cornfield. Morris was not injured in the crash.
Assisting at the scene were Ashland Fire and EMS, the Ashland County Coroner's Office, the Ashland County Sheriff's Office and the highway patrol's reconstruction unit.
The crash remains under investigation.
Elderly drivers cause many accidents. We need to force
drivers to take driving refresher courses every 5 years or more often.
Drivers must also be tested for eye-sight, hearing, drugs, etc. Many thousands
of deaths and hundreds of thousands of injuries would be prevented if we do
so. Please remember that a vehicle is a lethal weapon and only a
regularly-trained, capable and fit person should operate it.
