A local driver is dead after a car hit a tree on an area road early Wednesday.
State troopers from the Wilmington Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol (OSHP) responded at 2:25 a.m. to Center Road in Clinton County on reports of a crash, according to an OSHP spokesperson.
OSHP identified the driver as Benjamin Stearns, 22, of Centerville.
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An initial investigation showed that Stearns was driving a 2017 Kia Forte eastbound on Center Road…