“Anytime someone loses their life in a traffic crash it’s a tragedy that we just hate to see,” said Dayton police Sgt. Gordon Cairns.
The crash was reported just before 5 p.m. at Stanley Avenue and Helena Street, just east of Island MetroPark, according to Montgomery County Regional Dispatch Center records.
Callers told 911 dispatchers the crash involved two vehicles, one that went airborne. They also said two people may have been injured, and that one was unconscious.
An investigation determined a 78-year-old man was driving a 2010 Buick LaCrosse east on East Helena Street when he attempted to turn left onto Stanley Avenue.
As he was turning, the car was T-boned by a 2022 BMW X5, according to a Dayton police crash report. The BMW hit the passenger side of the Buick, Cairns said.
The report said the Buick failed to yield to the BMW, but Cairns said Thursday police are still investigating which vehicle had the right of way.
The Buick went off the left side of the road before hitting a stop sign and then a building.
Medics transported the driver of the Buick and his passenger, Ruby Robinson, to Miami Valley Hospital.
Robinson was pronounced dead at the hospital. The driver had minor injuries, according to the crash report.
The driver of the BMW was treated at the scene and released.
Cairns asked anyone with information on the crash to call the Dayton Police Department Traffic Services Unit at 937-333-1149. People also can submit tips anonymously to Miami Valley Crime Stoppers at 937-222-STOP (7867).
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