UPDATE @ 11:33 a.m. 05/29/17
Funeral services have been scheduled for 17-year-old Noah J. Theiss.
The family will receive friends from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on May 31 at Tobias Funeral Home located 5471 Far Hills Avenue at Rahn Road in Dayton. Mass of Christian Burial is scheduled for 10 a.m. Thursday at St, Henry Catholic Church located at 6666 Springboro Pike in Miamisburg.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Bishop Fenwick Guardian Angel Fund which helps high school students requiring tuition assistance.
EARLIER REPORT
A Bishop Fenwick High School student died after he was ejected in a crash Thursday night just southeast of Springboro, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
Noah J. Theiss, 17, of Franklin Twp., was a passenger in his parents’ car driven by Hosney Mousa, 15, of Washington Twp. in Montgomery County. The car crashed about 8:10 p.m., on Springboro Road near Red Lion-Five Points Road, in Clearcreek Twp., Warren County, according to troopers.
“He was so young. I don’t think he should have died this way,”Gabe Hoel, a friend of the victim, said Friday.
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Investigation determined Mousa was driving the 2013 Honda Accord east on Springboro Road when he lost control. The car traveled off the right side of the roadway, striking a utility pole and rolling over several times.
The crash occurred on a winding section of the road, near the Sycamore Preserve Park southeast of Springboro, according to authorities.
Theiss, the right front passenger, was partially ejected through a sun roof and pronounced dead at the scene, according reports.
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A rear passenger, Faith N. Armbuser, 16, of Springboro, was treated and released from Atrium Medical Center in Middletown.
“He’s 17. He flew through the roof,” according to a call, apparently from Armbruser, to 911.
Mousa was treated and released from Dayton Children’s Hospital South Campus in Springboro.
“I don’t know the address. We’re in the middle of nowhere,” the caller told a 911 operator. “Please help me, he’s dead.”
“Please help me, I’m so scared,” the 911 call continued.
A woman who saw the crash while visiting a nearby creek at the Sycamore Reserve Park with her husband and two children took over the call and reported the other boy at the scene, apparently Mousa, was walking around “kind of out of it.”
On Friday, Lt. Chuck O’Bryon of the Ohio State Highway Patrol, said there was no indication that alcohol or drug use were involved, but investigators were awaiting toxicology tests.
O’Bryon said it appeared the crash was the result of a combination of driver inexperience, high speed and failure to wear a seat belt.
It was unclear why Mousa was driving.
According to the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles’ website, a driver can be issued a temporary instruction permit identification card starting at 15 years and six months. The temporary permit must be held for at least six months, among other requirements that must be completed, before a drivers’ license can be issued.
Hoel said he was under the impression that Mousa had a temporary permit.
Mousa was unlicensed, but even with a temporary permit, Mousa was not supposed to have driven as he is alleged to have Thursday night at the time of the crash, O’Bryon said.
“He has to be with a parent or guardian,” he said.
Mousa was identified as the driver after conflicting reports at the scene, O’Bryon said.
“It’s a tragedy,” O’Bryon said.
O’Bryon said it could be several weeks or longer before the case is presented to Warren County prosecutors.
Andrew Barczak, principal at Bishop Fenwick High School in Middletown, confirmed Theiss attended the school, in a voice mail left as he headed to graduation.
Hoel said he thought of Theiss as a brother.
“I was really good friends with Noah. He was like a bigger brother to me,” said Hoel, recalling he met Theiss through his brothers, Dylan and Tristan Theiss.
“He would always make everything fun. He was just a positive person,” Hoel said.
Hoel said he and the Theiss brothers would often drive around together. He recalled Theiss taking him to Kings Island Amusement Park.
“He just had an outgoing spirit. He was fun to be around,” Hoel added.
Hoel said he was less familiar with Mousa. He said Mousa and Theiss became friends after Theiss moved to the area from Gratis, a village in Preble County.
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UPDATE @ 11:10 a.m.
A 17-year-old Springboro boy who died in a crash Thursday night was identified as Noah J. Theiss. He was a passenger in a Honda Accord driven by Hosney Mousa, 15, of Centerville, that crashed about 8:10 p.m., on Springboro Road near Red Lion-Five Points Road, in Clearcreek Twp. A rear passenger was identified as Faith N. Armbuser, 16, of Springboro, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
UPDATE @ 2:25 a.m. (May 26)
A 15-year-old was driving a car that crashed in Clearcreek Twp. and resulted in the death of a 17-year-old boy from Springboro Thursday night.
Around 8:10 p.m. Thursday, state troopers and medics were dispatched to a single-vehicle, rollover crash on Springboro Road near Red Lion-Five Points Road.
A 2013 Honda sedan, driven by a 15-year-old male from Centerville, was traveling east on Springboro Road when the driver lost control, struck a utility pole and overturned several times, state troopers said.
The crash ejected the front-seat passenger who was pronounced dead at the scene. Troopers identified the victim as 17-year-old Noah Theiss of Springboro.
The driver was treated and released from to Dayton Children’s Hospital South Campus in Springboro. A back-seat passenger, a 16-year-old Springboro girl, was treated and released from Atrium Medical Center in Middletown.
UPDATE @ 10 p.m. (May 25)
One juvenile was killed and two others injured tonight in a rollover crash on Springboro Road in Clearcreek Twp.
“Upon arrival there was one fatality,” Sgt. Bryan Cook of the Ohio State Highway Patrol’s Lebanon Post said.
There were three youths in the car. The other two were taken to local hospitals with injuries described as not life-threatening, Cook said.
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UPDATE @ 9:25 p.m.
A crash with ejection tonight on Springboro Road turned deadly.
The Warren County Coroner’s Office is on scene.
There was at least one other injury reported in the crash.
FIRST REPORT
Crews were called to a serious injury crash tonight in Clearcreek Twp. in Warren County.
The crash was reported around 8:15 p.m. on Springboro Road near Red Lion 5 Points Road. The road is closed in the area of the crash.
One person was reported ejected, and there was at least one other injury, with CareFlight initially placed on standby.
We have crews on the way and will update this report.
