BEAVERCREEK TWP., Greene County — A Wilmington man was killed in a crash and car fire on Beaver Valley Road near the Siebenthaler’s Garden Center early Monday, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
Emergency crews responded to the report of a car fire in the 2000 block of Beaver Valley around 4:45 a.m.
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State troopers closed down the road for about three hours while they investigated the crash.
James H. Eyler III, 43, of Wilmington, was driving south on Beaver Valley, when he didn’t make it around a curve, the state patrol said. He drove of the left side of the road, hit a tree and his SUV caught fire.
Eyler died at the scene, state troopers said.