71-year-old man driving tractor dies after crash in Ohio

PICKAWAY COUNTY — A man driving a tractor was hit and killed in Ohio on Monday.

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The Pickaway County Sheriff’s Office wrote in a social media post that its communication center received a call around 1:44 p.m. of a crash involving a tractor.

It happened around Walnut Creek Pike and Hagerty Road in Walnut Township, according to the sheriff’s office.

The tactor’s driver, 71-year-old Roger Diehl, died at a hospital.

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When deputies arrived, they found that Diehl drove his New Holland Tractor TC40D on Hagerty Road. He stopped at a stop sign and then pulled out in front of a gray 2006 gray Nissan going southbound when the crash happened.

Medics took the Nissan driver, Genevieve McIntyre, to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Diehl was transported to a Columbus hospital. He died from his injuries on Monday night, the sheriff’s office said.

The crash remains under investigation.

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