Troopers seek pickup in fatal turnpike crash

6/24/2010

MILAN, Ohio — State troopers need help locating a pickup involved in a fatal crash in Erie County on the Ohio Turnpike Sunday.

The pickup, which was pulling a trailer, was westbound about 11:55 a.m. when the trailer lost a tire and the tire bounced over the median wall and hit an eastbound car, killing the driver, Douglas Wise, 51, of Grove City, Ohio.

A photo of the pickup was taken as the vehicle left the toll booth at the U.S. 250-Sandusky exit. The photo is posted at state pat rol.o hi o.gov.

Anyone with information about the pickup is asked to call the Milan post of the Ohio Highway Patrol, 419-499-4808.