Car Strikes Embankment in Ross, Ohio, Elderly Woman Injured

City: Colerain, Ohio
County: Ross, Ohio
Date of Accident: January 15, 2013
Type of Accident: Motor Vehicle Accident – 2000 Saturn Ion

It was alleged that speeding was the cause of a crash that occurred on Walnut Creek Road in Colerain, Ross, Ohio, and resulted in injuries for the 62-year-old female occupant of a 2000 Saturn Ion midsize car. Police reports are that on January 15, 2014 at approximately 7:20 pm, a 67 year old man of Circleville, Ohio, was driving his car, north on Walnut Creek Road when it went off the right side of the roadway where it allegedly struck an embankment. The woman, Theresa L. Keaton, was transported by Colerain Township EMS to Adena Regional and the man charged with operating his vehicle without reasonable control. CV Transportation towed the car.

There were approximately 893 accidents that occurred in Ohio in 2011 and involved an embankment. Colerain, Ross, Ohio whose population in 2012 was 1,943 suffered 12 injury crashes, which resulted in 20 persons being injured. Crashes that were caused by drivers traveling at unsafe speed in 2010 were 4, 778 that caused injuries. Accidents that occurred and resulted in injuries when it was cloudy amounted to 19,791. Those accidents in which there were no controls were 13,475 which resulted in injuries.

If you’ve been injured in a Colerain, Twin or Union, Ohio, area accident, please call the Ross County, Ohio, car accident lawyers at Chester Law Group at 800-218-4243.