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Troopers ID driver who died in airborne crash on I-75

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WEST CHESTER TOWNSHIP, Ohio -- A Middletown man died Tuesday morning after his car veered into the grassy median on Interstate 75, struck an embankment and sailed, airborne, over Lesourdsville West Chester Road before striking a bridge pillar of the southbound I-75 overpass. 

The Ohio State Highway Patrol announced in a news release Cecil Booker, 31, was pronounced dead at the scene. 

LeSourdsville West Chester Road closed for several hours after the crash but reopened to traffic at about 2:15 p.m.

According to state troopers, the crash remains under investigation.