DELAWARE COUNTY — Three people were killed, including an infant, and three others were injured after a fiery crash on an Ohio interstate on Saturday.
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State troopers from the Ohio State Highway Patrol (OSHP) responded around 6:30 p.m. to Interstate 71 near U.S. 36 and State Route 37 in Delaware County on a reported crash, according to our news partner, WBNS in Columbus.
All lanes on I-71 were closed for several hours. As many as nine vehicles were involved in the crash, according to OSHP.
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An initial investigation showed that a semitruck, driven by Modo Ngom, 50, was traveling northbound on I-71 when he failed to stop the semi as it approached a backup.
The semi hit several stopped vehicles.
State troopers said that the three people who died were a 1-year-old child, a 36-year-old woman, and a 37-year-old man. They have not been identified. All three people were traveling in a Chevrolet Silverado, OSHP said.
Medics transported three other people to hospitals with serious, but non-life-threatening injuries.
Ngom was arrested for vehicular homicide, OSHP stated.
Online jail records show that he is in the Delaware County Jail.
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