The driver, Luther Lee Ward III, 30, of Huber Heights, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to a release from the Huber Heights Police Division.
Ward was headed west in a Ford Fusion on Taylorsville Road at high speed when he went off the right side of the road and through the front yards of several residences before striking a tree head-on. The car spun and hit the front of a house, the release stated.
The crash is under investigation by the department’s crash reconstruction team.
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