Teenage girl killed in head-on crash in Licking County
HEBRON, Ohio (WCMH) – Highway patrol investigators released some details Friday on a crash that left a teenage girl dead in Licking County.
Megan Hart, of Baltimore, Ohio, was heading east on Thursday in a 2003 Toyota Corolla on Refugee Road, near Canyon Road in Hebron. Around 5:48 p.m., her car veered off the left side of the road and into a ditch before striking a concrete abutment head-on.
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Authorities at the scene pronounced Hart dead on arrival and she was taken to the Licking County Morgue. She was 16 years old.
“Just a great teammate,” said Jon Griffith, head softball coach at Lakewood High School. “She was just one of those kids. She was funny. She was intelligent. She was super hard working, which was well respected around here. She was one of the kids that like I said was the center of the program or the heart of the program was Megan Hart for sure.”
The OSHP said it didn’t suspect alcohol or drugs to be involved but continued to investigate what may have led to the crash.
“We’re not playing for wins and losses this year,” Griffith said. “We’re playing for Megan.”
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