COLERAIN TOWNSHIP, Ohio — One person is dead after crashing at a gas station in Colerain Township Wednesday night, investigators said.
According to police, Edric Mbayo was driving a Ford Explorer at an "excessive speed" when he clipped another car, lost control and crashed at a Shell gas station near the intersection of Colerain Avenue and Banning Road around 10 p.m. The car did not hit the building or any gas pumps.
Mbayo was taken to UC Medical Center where he later died, police said.
The speed limit is 35 mph on Colerain Avenue, but people who live nearby say speeding is a huge problem.
"There's always speeding on Colerain Avenue, it's Colerain avenue. It's like a highway,” Harold Gilliam said.
Colerain Police agree.
"This stretch here has had way too many accidents in the last few years," said Jim Love, Colerain police's public information officer.
Since Aug. 1, there has been 139 crashes on Colerain Avenue.
"It's a straight stretch, and I think some people take advantage of that," Love said.
Crashes on the road make up almost 30% of all crashes in the township.
Richard Burton works at the Shell Gas Station on Colerain Avenue, and he said he left work about 15 minutes before the crash happened. Burton said he wasn’t surprised because he sees people speed at that intersection often.
“Everybody needs to slow the heck down," Burton said.
Burton said the pole that was hit Wednesday night was just replaced a few months ago after being damaged by a different crash.
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