GOSHEN TOWNSHIP, Ohio — The five people killed in an early morning crash in Clermont County have been identified by Ohio State Highway Patrol (OSHP).
OSHP said Mathew Penny, 25, was driving a 2005 Chrysler 300 — which had three other occupants — northeast on State Route 28 around 1:45 a.m. when he struck 43-year-old Dustin McDole's 2007 Subaru Legacy — which had one other occupant — that was being driven northwest on Edenton Pleasant Plain Road. OSHP said that McDole was attempting to cross State Route 28 at the time of the crash. After the two vehicles collided they traveled off the side of the roadway into an embankment.
Both Penny and McDole were killed in the crash. Three others were also pronounced dead at the scene:
- Chloe Love, 19
- Dezmen Jernigan, 18
- Andrea Iery, 42
An 18-year-old man was also transported to UC Medical Center with life-threatening injuries, OSHP said.
A woman who works at a nearby bar, The Bronze Bell Bar and Grill, said several people attempted to help before first responders arrived.
"In a decade, I've never seen anything like this in this area," the woman told WCPO 9.
Alongside OSHP, the Goshen Police Department, Goshen Twp. Fire & EMS, Warren County EMS, Loveland/Symmes Twp. EMS and the Clermont County Coroner's Office all assisted on scene.
Dozens of neighbors, friends, family members, and loved ones went out to the scene of the fatal crash on Sunday.
People brought balloons and shared memories of the victims killed in the deadly collision.
WCPO 9 News spoke with Michael Penny, whose brother Mathew was driving one of the cars involved.
“It shouldn't have happened, it was a tragic event, it shouldn’t have happened. I am so sorry to everyone that was involved,” Penny said.
Penny described his brother as kind and caring, who especially loved cars. Penny told WCPO how grateful he was to see an entire community coming together to remember not just his brother, but all five of the people killed in the crash.
“My brother has so many friends that I didn’t even know about, to see everybody here, it blows me away," he exclaimed.
Family members and friends brought bouquets and special tokens, and planted crosses at the site of the crash.
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