Tiffin woman dies as SUV strikes tree

2/9/2007

TIFFIN - A Tiffin woman was killed yesterday when her sport utility vehicle went off Seneca County Road 11 in Hopewell Township and struck a tree, the Ohio Highway Patrol said.

Dorothy L. Knott, 28, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Mr. Knott was traveling south on Road 11, south of County Road 38, about 2:30 a.m. at a high rate of speed when she lost control of her vehicle, went off the left side of the road, and struck the tree, troopers at the patrol's Fremont post said.

Witnesses told troopers they heard a loud crash about 2:30 a.m., but the wreckage was not discovered until about 7 a.m.