The Highway Patrol reports a three vehicle, serious injury crash with a trash truck in Vinton County from about 4:30 afternoon Wednesday.
They say 29-year-old Damian Hunt of Londonderry had stopped a 2021 Freightliner waste collection truck on US50 in the vicinity of Allensville to collect trash. 76-year-old Ronald Stansberry of Londonderry was westbound in a 2007 Ford Five Hundred when he failed to assure clear distance and struck the rear of the trash truck.
31-year-old Alissa Lindsey of McArthur was behind Stansberry in a 2010 Chevrolet Impala. She swerved to avoid the crash and struck an embankment of the right side of the road.
Stansberry was transported to Adena Regional Medical Center and then later to Grant Hospital in Columbus. Lindsey sustained minor injury and was not transported. The trash truck driver was uninjured.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol reminds motorists to never drive distracted.