Driver seriously injured in multiple-vehicle crash on U.S. 35 East in Dayton

A male driver seriously injured the multiple-vehicle crash on U.S. 35 East Wednesday afternoon "looked to be in pretty bad shape," Dayton Fire Battalion Chief Brad Baldwin said.

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Firefighters and paramedics were dispatched around 4:22 p.m. and worked at least 20 minutes to free the male Baldwin described as “a younger guy” from the wreckage of an SUV. The male has been taken to Miami Valley Hospital from the scene near the Steve Whalen Boulevard exit.

In the preliminary investigation, Baldwin said, as many as four vehicles may have been involved and the SUV may have rolled at least once before coming to rest on its side.

"Everybody stopped but him," Baldwin said.

A caller to 9-1-1 described seeing at least two vehicles in the crash that shut down the highway at the Steve Whalen Boulevard exit.

"A wreck happened right in front of us. There's a car flipped on its side," the caller said to an emergency operator. "There's a car into the wall and then there's a car on its side over on the other side of the highway."

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Angela Marker, of Beavercreek, a former member of the U.S. military who has some medical training, said she helped the driver of a vehicle the SUV hit before it crashed.

Marker said she helped keep the driver of that vehicle calm.

Marker said the SUV, which was traveling at high speed, appears to have cut across several lanes and clipped the rear of the vehicle before it went tumbling down the highway.

"I hope he's OK," she said of the SUV driver.