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Couple killed in crash were soul mates, friends say

Aaron Adams and Amy Dorn at a wedding about 20 minutes before they were killed in a crash on June 25, just east of Lebanon. Contributed photo

Submitted Aaron Adams and Amy Dorn at a wedding about 20 minutes before they were killed in a crash on June 25, just east of Lebanon. Contributed photo

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By Lawrence Budd, Staff Writer Updated 1:02 PM Tuesday, August 4, 2009

No one will ever know how far Amy Dorn and Aaron Adams would have made it together.

Dorn, 22, of Lebanon, and Adams, 26, of Wayne Twp., Warren County, had been dating for about a year when they were killed June 27 after a pickup truck crashed into the motorcycle they were riding east of Lebanon.

Adams’ mother believes her son had found his soul mate.

“I know she was gonna be the one Aaron was going to spend the rest of his life with,” Penny Adams said, fighting tears.

According to the Ohio Highway Patrol, Amber Rogers, 40, of Bald Knob, Ark., was eastbound on Ohio 123 in a 2002 Ford F-250 Supercab when she crossed the center line and nearly struck a westbound car before crashing into Adams’ 2006 Harley Davidson Softail.

The collision knocked Adams and Dorn, neither wearing a helmet, off the bike, according to reports. They were both pronounced dead at the scene.

Rogers, who was wearing no seatbelt, was treated for minor injuries, cited for misdemeanor vehicular homicide, as well as traveling left of center and failure to wear a seatbelt.

She remains free without bond, pending an Aug. 6 hearing in Lebanon Municipal Court.

Rogers — living in the area while working on the underground pipeline currently under construction from north of Lebanon to eastern Ohio — told troopers she was heading home, but had a limited memory of the crash.

She said she had taken a painkiller about four hours before the accident. Authorities are awaiting blood test results.

Adams and Dorn were on their way to meet friends after attending a wedding at Camp Kern, according to friends and family.

“We were going to ride together,” friend Brandon Fischer said.

Fischer’s cell phone indicates he last talked to the couple at 7:54 p.m., 16 minutes before the 911 call.

“I had no idea that was going to be our last call,” said Fischer, who met Adams while they attended school in Waynesville.

Fischer credited Adams with helping him over the past decade to deal with personal problems, as well as the death of his father and a close mutual friend, Jonathan Frye, 21, of Spring Valley, killed four years ago in an ATV accident.

Adams, a water department worker for the city of Lebanon, was introduced to Dorn by her boss, Bruce Osborne, owner of Osborne Excavating.

Dorn, a longtime 4-H participant, loved horses and helped her mother, Wendy Davis, of the Los Vaqueros horse club.

“She was a big tomboy,” Davis said.

Dorn graduated from Springboro High School in 2005.

Earlier this month, a benefit dance for 4-H at Springboro High School honored Dorn and Karol Stegemoller, 17, a senior killed Feb. 22, 2002, after her Jeep went left of center and collided head-on along U.S. 50 while visiting her sister at Ohio University in Athens.

On Saturday, Aug. 1, Frye and Adams will be remembered when Fischer and other members of their circle of friends get together for a fourth annual memorial at Miami Cemetery in Corwin.

“To have two of them gone is hard for the mind to accept,” Fischer said.

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