An Ohio University junior is recovering in Cleveland after being involved in a car accident earlier this month.
Daniel M. Ross is in good condition, according to authorities from Cleveland Metro Hospital, after being one of four people injured in an April 3 car crash on Columbus Road.
It was one of our more severe accidents
said Athens Police Department Officer Roger Deardorff.
In the early afternoon on April 3, OU senior Kelly Ross, 107 N. Lancaster St., was driving on Columbus Road, headed home to Cleveland, when she came up behind OU senior Gina Vinci, whose car was stopped as she tried to turn left into a car wash, Deardorff said.
Kelly Ross reached for her break, but hit the clutch instead. She swerved across the center line, missing Vinci's car, and ran head on into a red pick-up truck driven by Plains resident Oris Rutter.
Glouster resident Michael Dixson removed Kelly Ross and Daniel M. Ross from the white SUV by onlooker. Dixson, an employee at Doctor's Hospital, removed the two from the Suburban when he noticed it catching fire, according to a police report.
The Athens Fire Department cut the seat in Rutter's truck to get his passenger, Athens resident Harry Barnes, out of the truck.
Deardorff said Kelly Ross will be found responsible for the crash, but that all charges against her would be misdemeanors with no jail time.
Just a driver error Deardorff said. We see these circumstances all the time where drivers say their foot slipped off the break.
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