Teenager dead after crash in Marysville

MARYSVILLE — A teenager is dead after a crash in Marysville, Ohio Saturday evening.

The Marysville Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol responded to a single-vehicle fatal crash at US Route 36 near Connor Road in Union County on Saturday, March 2 around 10:58 p.m.

The preliminary investigation revealed a pickup truck, driven by 16-year-old Blake Gorton of Woodstock Ohio was heading southwest on US Route 36.

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The truck crossed the center line and traveled off the left side of the roadway where it it hit a guardrail and overturned.

The truck continued down into an embankment and became submerged in Treacle Creek.

Gorton died from his injuries.

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