Rt. 62 may get stop light at risky Licking County intersection - Columbus Dispatch
UTICA, Ohio — May 20 was a Wednesday, a day like any other workday for Camon Hochstedler. The 24-year-old was driving west on Rt. 62 toward a construction job site from his home in Gambier with his younger brother, Kylan, beside him in the cab of their Ford F-350 pickup truck. It towed a flatbed trailer with a Bobcat lashed to it. And then it happened. Camon Hochstedler caught a blurry glimpse of the green Honda Civic before he smashed into its passenger-side door. The Civic, driven by 24-year-old Devin Warner, spun off into a ditch. “It just seemed to all happen in a second,” Camon Hochstedler said. He looked over and saw his 20-year-old brother pinned into the seat by a mangled door and dashboard. Ohio Department of Transportation data show that since 2011, fewer than five crashes per year have occurred at this rural intersection of Rts. It’s the severity,” said Ty Thompson, planning engineer for ODOT District 5. Nearly every crash at the intersection occurs just like the Hochstedlers’: Someone pulls out from Rt. 661 and gets T-boned by someone going 55 mph or faster on Rt. 62.... Source: www.dispatch.com
