A late-afternoon attempt to pass on State Route 43 turned tragic yesterday, leaving a 70-year-old Sandy Township man dead and two other people hospitalized about a mile west of Malvern in Carroll County.
Emergency crews shut down the two-lane highway while troopers and crash investigators worked the three-vehicle scene, which the Ohio State Highway Patrol estimates happened around 4:56 p.m.
Local reporting identified the victim as Lee D. Meadows, 70, and said he was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after the collision. According to the Canton Repository, the Ohio State Highway Patrol is leading the investigation.
How the crash unfolded
Investigators said the chain-reaction crash began when a passenger car tried to pass a pickup truck on Route 43 and struck an oncoming SUV head-on. The pickup then became involved in the collision as well…