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Norfolk Southern investigators are looking into the cause of a train derailment that occurred in Chillicothe early Tuesday morning.
According to Chillicothe police, 20 cars went off the tracks between East 4th Street and East 7th Street at approximately 1 a.m. Tuesday.
There were no injuries reported, but the stretch of tracks is damaged, according to investigators.
The cars, which were carrying coal, did not tip over.
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A State Highway Patrol trooper and a driver she was helping after an accident were struck Tuesday when another vehicle lost control on an icy Ohio highway and pushed a cable barrier into them and their vehicles.
The crash happened shortly after midnight along Interstate 70 near Springfield, about 45 miles west of Columbus, as the trooper assisted a 56-year-old Huber Heights woman who had lost control of her vehicle earlier and ended up in the median, the patrol said.
The Franklin County Sheriff's Office is investigating a two-vehicle crash involving a semi on the city's west side Wednesday morning.
Deputies responded to Hague Avenue at Fisher Road in Franklin Township at about 8:27 a.m. Wednesday on a report of a crash.
Troopers from the Marion post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol are investigating a fatal crash that occurred in Richland Township early Thursday morning.
Troopers responded to Newmans Cardington Road, east of Claridon Westfield Road, at about 6:22 a.m. on a report of a single-vehicle crash.
According to the report, a 2011 Cadillac CTS two-door driven by 50-year-old Charles E. Orewiler, of Marion, was traveling eastbound on Newmans Cardington Road when the vehicle traveled off the left side of the road, striking a tree. The vehicle rolled and Orewiler was ejected.
All lanes of U.S. Route 62 have reopened following a crash involving multiple vehicles early Thursday morning.
Deputies from the Pickaway County Sheriff's Office responded to U.S. 62 between Mt. Sterling and Harrisburg at about 5:15 a.m.
According to the sheriff's office, the crash involved two semis, a passenger vehicle, and a pickup truck. One of the semis rear-ended the other semi causing it to hit the pickup truck. A passenger vehicle moving the opposite direction struck all of the debris.