A Jeep fled a traffic stop due to a moving violation around 11:50 a.m. near Kettering Boulevard and Ohio 741, heading north against one-way traffic on Kettering Boulevard, said Sgt. Andrew Parish of the Moraine Police Division.
The officer did not pursue the vehicle, Parish said.
Moraine fire and police dispatchers received multiple 911 calls that the Jeep hit another vehicle less than two miles from the initial attempted traffic stop, according to police.
The crash was in the 3100 block of Kettering Boulevard, near Edgefield Street.
The 911 callers also reported the driver of the Jeep was running away from the crash, police said.
Officers responded to the area and began providing medical care to two people.
The driver of the second vehicle, identified as Craft, had a life-threatening injury. Fire personnel attempted life-saving care, but he was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police.
Medics transported the passenger in the Jeep to the hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.
Officers arrested the driver of the Jeep behind a nearby business. He also was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Moraine Police investigators have also filed criminal charges in the case with the Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office.
A 34-year-old man who was arrested is in police custody and has been preliminarily charged with felony counts of aggravated vehicular homicide and failure to comply with signal/order of a police officer.
Police said his bond has been set at $950,000 and he will be incarcerated upon his release from the hospital.
Kettering Boulevard was temporarily closed as crews investigated.
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