5 Hospitalized After Vehicle Crashes into Retention Pond in West Jefferson, Ohio
Five people were hospitalized Thursday evening following a serious car accident in West Jefferson, a suburb of Columbus, Ohio. The incident occurred around 6:25 p.m. when a vehicle veered off Park West Drive, just off U.S. Route 40, and plunged into a retention pond near a local warehouse.
According to Ohio State Highway Patrol Lt. Merrill Thompson, witnesses observed the car traveling westbound before it suddenly drifted into the pond. The driver escaped the vehicle, and a responding trooper rescued one child just before the vehicle submerged.
One additional person was pulled from the submerged vehicle. Three individuals were taken to Nationwide Children’s Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, while two others, reportedly in cardiac arrest, were transported to Doctors Hospital. Their current conditions remain unknown.
Emergency teams from multiple local departments — including OSHP West Jefferson Post, West Jefferson Police Department, Madison County Sheriff’s Office, Jefferson Township Fire and EMS, and Prairie Township Fire Department — collaborated in the rescue effort.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
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