SUV Lands in Creek, 47 Y-O Man Injured in Hocking, OH

City: Laurel, Ohio
County: Hocking, Ohio
Date of Accident: February 5, 2014
Type of Accident: Motor Vehicle Accident – 2000 Mercury Marauder

A 47 year old man of Logan, Ohio, was injured and treated at the scene following an accident that occurred in Laurel, Hocking, Ohio on February 5, 2014 at approximately 4:30 pm. Police reported that the man was driving a 200 Mercury Marauder SUV, east on County Route 4, when he allegedly failed to negotiate a curve. The SUV skidded off the right side of the roadway, struck an embankment and overturned. It finally rested in a creek. He was charged with operating his vehicle without reasonable control. Marty’s towed the SUV.

In the category of road condition by crash severity, there were 241 persons who were injured when there was slush on the road in 2011. The population of Laurel, Hocking, Ohio, was 1,190 in 2012. They suffered 14 injury crashes that resulted in 17 injuries. Accidents in which the vehicles overturned/rolled over and caused injuries, amounted to 27 in the category of first harmful event in unit of error. There were approximately 893 accidents that occurred in Ohio in 2011 and involved an embankment. There were 1,658 injury crashes that occurred on icy roads in 2011.

If you’ve been injured in a Laurel, Falls, or Logan, Ohio, areas accident, please call the Hocking County, Ohio, car accident attorneys at Chester Law Group at 800-218-4243