MONROE, Ohio — One person is dead and another was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries after a crash on I-75 in Monroe Thursday afternoon.
Ohio State Highway Patrol said 44-year-old Mary Jo Hernandez of Cleveland, Tenn. was driving a 2016 Chevy Equinox LT westbound on State Route 63 just before 3:30 p.m. Thursday. She traveled off the right side of the road in between the two on-ramps to northbound I-75.
Hernandez, OSHP said, struck a ditch and went airborne over the on-ramp and onto the right side of the road on northbound I-75. Her car traveled across all northbound lanes, continuing over the concrete median barrier and landing in the southbound lanes of I-75.
She was airlifted to Miami Valley Hospital with life-threatening injuries. Her current condition is unknown at this time.
OSHP said the passenger in her car, 75-year-old Melvin D. Norton of Celina, was taken to UC West Chester Medical Center. He later died due to his injuries.
A medical helicopter has responded to a crash that shut down southbound I-75 in Monroe Thursday afternoon.
The crash is being investigated by OSHP's Hamilton post.
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