Pickup Strikes Embankment and Overturns in Adams, Ohio; 1 Injured

City: Franklin, Ohio
County: Adams, Ohio
Date of Accident: June 9, 2013
Type of Accident: Motor Vehicle Accident – 1992 Ford Ranger

Ohio State Highway Patrol remained on the scene of an accident that occurred on Sunday evening June 9, 2013 at approximately 7:05 pm in Franklin, Adams, Ohio and resulted in injuries for a 19-year-old woman. OHSP reported that the woman was driving a 1992 Ford Ranger pickup south on State Route 41, when she allegedly lost control of the vehicle and it went off the right side of the roadway. The pickup struck an embankment, overturned and rested partially in the roadway. Peebles Lifesquad transported the woman to Adams County Regional after which she was charged with operating her vehicle without reasonable control. Larry McFarland’s towed the pick.

There were approximately 893 accidents occurred in Ohio in 2011 and involved an embankment. Franklin, Adams, Ohio, had a population of 1,167 in 2011. Total amount of injury crashes were 19, with 31 that resulted in injuries. In Ohio in 2010 accidents that occurred on the roadside amounted to 27,047, of which 8,918 resulted in injuries. Crashes that were caused by drivers traveling at unsafe speed in 2011 were 4, 778 that caused injuries. The total accidents, which occurred in the rain, were 25,342 with 6,618, which caused injuries. Those accidents, which occurred when the time was wet, amounted to 13,826 injury crashes.

If you’ve been injured in a Meigs, Franklin or Liberty, Ohio, area accident, please call the Adams County, Ohio, car accident attorneys at Chester Law Group at 800-218-4243.