SHARONVILLE, Ohio (WKRC) - A crash involving a military convoy shut down part of I-75 and injured three people on Wednesday.
According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol, it was a three-vehicle crash that resulted in serious injury. It happened at 11:08 a.m. on the southbound lanes of I-75 near mile post 18.
Upon arrival, officials found that the crash involved a United States Army military vehicle operated by a 21-year-old, a Freightliner tractor-trailer driven by a 46-year-old, and a Peterbilt tractor-trailer driven by a 64-year-old.
The initial investigation revealed that all three were headed southbound. The military vehicle and the Freightliner were both in the right exit lane to I-275 W and the Peterbilt was in the right middle lane. The military vehicle then made a lane change into the right middle lane and then back into the right exit lane.
As it was changing lanes, the military vehicle hit the side of the Freightliner. It then went back into the right middle lane where it hit the Peterbilt. Hitting the Peterbilt caused the military vehicle to then travel off the right side of the roadway where it overturned into a tree line.
A 41-year-old passenger in the military vehicle was thrown from the vehicle. He was taken to UC Medical Center with serious, but non-life-threatening injuries. The 21-year-old driver and her other passenger, another 21-year-old, were also taken to UC Medical Center with minor injures.
Both drivers of the two tractor-trailers were uninjured in the crash.
