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Driver in fatal Liberty Twp. crash charged

UPDATE @ 4 p.m.:

Lt. Clint Arnold with the Ohio State Patrol Hamilton post said the driver of the vehicle in a fatal Liberty Twp. crash has been charged with one count of aggravated vehicular homicide.

George Hughes, 49, was driving a 2003 BMW 745I east on state Route 129 at about 12:27 p.m. when the car went off the right side of the road and hit a fence and a tree near mile marker 22, according to a news release from the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

A passenger in the vehicle, 47-year-old Philip Murry, was pronounced dead at the scene by the Butler County coroner.

The crash remains under investigation, and Arnold said they still don’t how he went off the road.

“We don’t know why he ran off the side of the road in the fashion that he did,” Arnold said. “Obviously we feel impairment had something to do with it. There was no sign of any evasive action once he got off the road, there was no evidence of him trying to get back on the road, no evidence of him applying the brakes, there is no evidence of any vehicle defects that would have caused him to go off the road.”

The police report has not been completed yet, according to Arnold.

UPDATE @ 1:30 p.m. May 30:

Charges are likely to be filed against the driver in a fatal car crash Monday afternoon in Liberty Twp., according to the Ohio Highway Patrol.

George Hughes, 49, was driving a 2003 BMW 745I east on state Route 129 at about 12:27 p.m. when the car went off the right side of the road and hit a fence and a tree near mile marker 22, according to a news release from the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

Troopers said yesterday they believed alcohol and/or drugs were a factor in the crash.

A passenger in the car, 47-year-old Philip Murry, was pronounced dead at the scene by the Butler County coroner.

No other information was immediately available.

A preliminary investigation shows that Hughes’s car was headed east on Ohio 129 when it went off the right side of the road, striking a fence and a tree.

A front-seat passenger, Phillip Murry, 47, also of Cincinnati, died at the scene, according to the Butler County Coroner’s Office.

Alcohol and/or drugs could have been a factor in the fatal crash, according to OSP.

INITIAL REPORT, May 29:

Alcohol and/or drugs could have been a factor in a fatal car crash Monday afternoon on state Route 129 in Liberty Twp., according to the Ohio Highway Patrol Post in Hamilton.

According to OSP investigators, George E. Hughes, 49, of Cincinnati, was driving.

His front-seat passenger, Phillip Murry, 47, also of Cincinnati, died at the scene, according to the Butler County Coroner’s Office.

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Hughes was taken to West Chester Hospital. He did not suffer any life-threatening injuries, according to the patrol.

According to OSP, both men were wearing seat belts.

A preliminary investigation shows that Hughes's car was headed east on 129 when it went off the right side of the road, striking a fence and a tree.

The crash remains under investigation by OSP Hamilton Post.

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