LIBERTY TOWNSHIP, Ohio — One person is dead after being hit by two semi trucks on Interstate 75 northbound early Tuesday morning, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said.
The crash happened at approximately 2:55 a.m. near Liberty Township in Butler County.
OSHP said a 2013 Mazda heading north on I-75 stopped in the middle lane of the highway "for an unknown reason."
Troopers said 21-year-old Damone Maston, of Dayton, Ohio, and one other person got out of the Mazda after it stopped; Maston and the vehicle were then hit by the driver of a tractor trailer truck, OSHP said.
Then, Maston was hit a second time by a second semi truck, OSHP. Maston died at the scene of the crash, troopers said.
The other person in the Mazda, a 35-year-old from Dayton, was taken to a hospital with injuries troopers said were "non-life-threatening."
Neither semi driver was injured in the crash, OSHP said.
The right three lanes on the interstate were closed for over three hours due to the crash.
The crash is still under investigation, OSHP said.
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