The Fayette County crash occurred on US 62.
The Fayette County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an injury traffic crash that hospitalized a woman. According to Sheriff Vernon Stanforth, 67-year-old Janette Walker, of Canal Winchester, was traveling north on U.S. 62, failed to negotiate curve, lost control, drove off the roadway into a grass field, and then struck a grove of trees.
A passenger, 86-year-old Mildred Headley, Sugar Grove, Ohio, was entrapped in the vehicle and had to be extricated. Headley was flown to a Dayton hospital, while Walker was taken to the Fayette County Memorial Hospital by squad.
The crash remains under investigation by the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office.