High-speed rollover sends man to hospital

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By Staff Report

A man was transported to Genesis Hospital following a rollover crash Tuesday morning along Coopermill Road just outside Zanesville City limits.

Emergency personnel responded to a call around 8:30 a.m. of a single vehicle rollover with possible entrapment.

When first responders arrived, they found a blue car on its top with the sole occupant already outside the vehicle. According to neighbors near the scene the driver appeared shaken up but visibly okay.

According to an Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper, a Zanesville Police Officer observed a vehicle traveling at a very high rate of speed traveling westbound on Pershing Road. Before the officer could initiate his lights and sirens the vehicle disappeared.

As the officer drove in the direction of the speeding vehicle he noticed an individual waving him down, alerting him of the crash, according to the trooper.

The driver was traveling westbound along Coopermill Road when he went off the left side of the roadway, struck a white pickup truck, hit a culvert, before finally overturning the vehicle, the trooper added.

The driver was transported by a South Zanesville squad to Genesis Hospital where he is being treated for minor injuries.

After speaking to the driver at the hospital, he will likely be cited according to a trooper on scene.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol, the City of Zanesville Police Department, and South Zanesville Fire & EMS were all on scene.

Correction: The vehicle was first reported as a Mustang, the story has since been updated to retract the model of the car.