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Monday, June 29, 2009
Driver ejected, lands on house
JAMESTOWN — When Joan Alfonso first saw the wreckage in her front yard she couldn’t imagine how anyone could have lived.
“That truck, it was an F-150, it was smashed,” said the resident of a split-level home on U.S. 35 east of Jamestown. “I don’t know how they survived.”
Alfonso was awakened about 1:30 a.m. Saturday, June 27, when a pickup truck driven by Brent Brown, 26, of Jamestown, went off the road, through several trees and after leaving a trail of debris came to rest on its top in her front yard.
Brown, who wasn’t wearing a seat belt, was ejected and flew more than 50 feet before he landed on Alfonso’s roof. A passenger Preston Boggs, 24, of Jamestown, was inside the cab of the overturned truck.
It wasn’t the crash that woke Alfonso, but the commotion afterwards. ” “I just heard a bunch of noise,” she said. ‘They said ma’am, don’t call 911, we just went off the road. We’re leaving.’ They didn’t know he was up there.”
Police are still unsure if another car was involved, but they do believe Brown was traveling well over the posted 55 mile per hour speed limit when he lost control, said Ohio Highway Patrol Lieutenant Marty Fellure of the Xenia post. “It’s a first in my career,” he said of the circumstances of the crash.
Medics didn’t find Brown right away. A deputy searching the area with a flashlight noticed a shoe up on the Alfonso’s roof, said Bob Olwin, Silvercreek Twp. fire chief. A ladder truck had to be brought in to get Brown down. “I’ve been doing this 22 years and I never seen anything like it,” Olwin said.
He was taken by CareFlight medical helicopter to Miami Valley Hospital where he remained in critical condition in the intensive care unit. Boggs, the passenger in the truck, was treated and released over the weekend.
Troopers are trying to determine exactly how fast the car was traveling when Brown lost control. Neither man was wearing a seat belt, and Lt. Fellure said if they had, their injuries would have likely been less serious. “Anytime you are involved in a wreck a safety belt will minimize injuries,” Fellure said.
Alfonso said the intersection of Old U.S. 35 and Ohio 734 has been the site of many accidents, but wrecks have fallen off since the four-lane highway was completed. She is left with a hole in their roof, destroyed shrubs and trees and an uneasy feeling. “I told my husband, after this, it’s time to move,” she said. “I hope they have insurance.”
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Bellbrook water bacteria may have been fluke
Two water samples collected from a Bellbrook tap in June tested over the allowable limit for coliform bacteria, but both Bellbrook and Ohio EPA officials say there doesn’t appear to be a systemic problem.
Ohio EPA spokeswoman Heather Lauer said the Bellbrook tests were positive for total coliform, but not for the dangerous E.coli bacteria.
Bellbrook City Manager Mark Schlagheck and Service Superintendent Dale Wilson both said they don’t think the bacteria was in the water, but rather on the outdoor spigot that the sample was drawn from.
Both samples that tested high for coliform were drawn from the same tap on Hillcrest Drive, and tests from other taps were negative.
“We spray a chlorine-and-water disinfectant solution on the test taps, and it was within a couple weeks of expiring,” Wilson said. “We went back and made a new batch of the solution and tested again, and those tests came back fine.”
EPA officials confirmed that Bellbrook’s current tests are coming back negative. Residents do not need to boil their water or take any other action.
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