Man dies after crash between semi and pickup truck

The accident happened around 6 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. The semi truck was backing up into Dale's Truck Parts, a salvage truck motor parts business.

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A crane lifts up a tractor trailer as a truck is eventually freed from under it. A small Chevy truck, traveling north on U.S. 42, about 10 miles north of Xenia, ran into and under a semi tractor trailer.

Staff photo by Ron Alvey A crane lifts up a tractor trailer as a truck is eventually freed from under it. A small Chevy truck, traveling north on U.S. 42, about 10 miles north of Xenia, ran into and under a semi tractor trailer.

By Katherine Ullmer, Staff Writer Updated 8:39 PM Thursday, February 4, 2010

CEDARVILLE, Greene County — The driver of a small Chevrolet pickup truck Christopher Wilson, 38, of Xenia, was pronounced dead at the scene of a crash on U.S. 42 that trapped his vehicle under the trailer of the semi.

According to Ohio State Patrol Lt. Marty Fellure of the Xenia Post, the semi-truck driver, who was uninjured, was backing his truck into Dale’s Truck Parts on U.S. 42 about a mile south of Cedarville at 6:30 a.m., when the driver of the pickup, apparently not seeing the semi’s lights in the dark crashed into and under the side of the trailer of the semi.

The truck was still under the trailer as Fellure reported on the crash at the scene at around 7:45 a.m. Sellure said they were still working to free the victim. He said he did not believe weather played any role in the crash, which occurred about a mile south of Cedarville between the city limits and Tarbox Cemetery Road. The crash has closed that part of the road temporarily.

Fellure said the crash remains under investigation.

Susan Hamilton, dispatcher for the Ohio State Patrol, Xenia Post, said the OSP has four units on the scene.

Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2341 or kullmer@DaytonDailyNews.com.

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