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UPDATE: Road closed after semi hits utility pole, overturns in Greene Co.

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GREENE COUNTY — UPDATE @ 8:17 A.M.

State troopers are investigating a rollover crash involving a semi in Greene County early Wednesday.

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Troopers from the Xenia Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol (OSHP) responded around 3:48 a.m. to a crash on Clifton Road near Grinnell Road, according to an OSHP spokesperson.

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An initial investigation showed that a 2024 Freightliner Cascadia tractor-trailer was traveling on Clifton Road when it went off the road into a ditch.

It hit a utility pole and overturned, the spokesperson said.

The Greene County Engineer’s Office wrote in a social media post that Clifton Road is closed between Clark Run and Grinnel Road.

No one was hurt.

State troopers cited the 68-year-old semi driver for Failure to Maintain Reasonable Control of a Motor Vehicle, the spokesperson stated.

The crash remains under investigation.

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