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Two people suffer minor injuries, after a car, driven by an intoxicated driver, leaves a I-471 off-ramp in Cincinnati and strikes a homeless man sleeping under a bridge.

Date: 
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Area: 
Cincinnati, OH

A homeless man was hit by a car that ran off the ramp from I-471 to I-71 early Friday morning.

Cincinnati police say a driver, later identified as Robert Harvey, 23, veered off the ramp, ran down an embankment and hit a bridge.

A homeless man, identified as Fred Dier, 36, was sleeping under that bridge was hit by the car but was not seriously injured. Police Lt. Tim Brown told The Cincinnati Enquirer that it was "a miracle" that the man wasn't more seriously injured or killed.