A video obtained from a homeowner living near the crash “clearly” shows her continuing from southbound Township Line Road in Warren County onto eastbound Ohio 73 - without stopping at a stop sign at the intersection, according to the report.
The truck and van veered off the road into a wall, the Large van continuing into a tree. The Larges lived in Springfield until two years ago, when they moved back to their hometown, North Vernon, Ind., following the retirement of Robert Large, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force, after careers in the military and with the U.S. EPA, according to his obituary.
The truck driver, William Williamson, 59, of Moraine, was treated for minor injuries; Montgomery, a teacher headed to pick up her sewing machine in Lebanon, spent two days in the hospital with a concussion and other injuries, according to the report.
“Now she wonders why she wasn’t the one who was killed as opposed to the other two individuals,” her lawyer, Charles Rittgers, said. “She’s shaken to the core. Every time she talks about it, she cries.”
Montgomery told troopers her last memory was of traveling from Wilmington Pike onto Township Line, using a route charted on Google Maps. Cell phone records show Montgomery hadn’t been on her iPhone in the past hour. Nor was there evidence alcohol or drugs, or speed, were involved, according to the report.
“I do not remember my speed, but I was not in a hurry. The next thing I remember I heard a man’s voice and being in an ambulance,” Montgomery said in her statement.
Warren County Prosecutor David Fornshell said he still needs to review the report before deciding on charges.
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