Teenager dies after wrong-way, head-on collision in Warren County

Adam Conn
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LEBANON, Ohio (WCMH) – A teenager is dead and a man hospitalized after a head-on collision in Warren County early Friday morning.

According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol, the crash occurred on Interstate 71, in Deerfield Township, when a 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee was traveling in the wrong direction – northbound in the southbound lanes – struck a 2019 International Harvester tractor-trailer combination, which was traveling south.

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Both vehicles veered off the southeast side of the highway, with the tractor-trailer flipping over.

The driver of the Jeep, 17-year-old Chad Case, of Mason, was pronounced dead at the scene. The tractor-trailer driver was taken to Mercy Health – Kings Mills Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

The interstate was closed for nearly seven hours while emergency crews were on scene. All southbound lanes reopened by 8:30 a.m., though the crash remains under investigation by the Lebanon Post of the OSHP.

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