XENIA — An 18-year-old man is dead after being thrown from a car during a crash.
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The crash happened early Wednesday morning off Bellbrook Avenue in Xenia.
Xenia police and Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers pulled up and discovered a single car had crashed.
That car began disintegrating as it flipped over several times, hitting three other parked cars in two driveways.
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“My husband and I heard a loud crash. It woke us up immediately,” Abbey Ferry said. “It was in a million pieces and there’s still pieces all over our grass.”
Ferry had another car hit her house last year.
The crash on Wednesday killed 18-year-old Ashton Evans.
“Was pretty torn up about it. It was hard seeing that in your front yard,” Ferry said. “It was such a weird mix of emotions and feelings.”
Damage on the scene shows where the 23-year-old driver went off the road, hitting a mailbox and smacking into a large tree, which sent the vehicle through the air.
“It’s terrible ... I don’t know why they always wreck into here, but it’s happened a lot,” Scott Harris said.
Harris told News Center 7 that while he’s not sure how fast the car was going, he’s tired of the dangerous driving putting people at risk and of losing his mailboxes.
“I’m going to say this is the fifth mailbox in six years,” he said.
News Center 7 has reached out to state troopers and police to see if speed was a factor.
We will continue to follow this story.
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