2 seriously injured after storage unit falls, hits car in Fairfield

Two people were taken to the hospital with potentially serious injuries after a storage unit fell off a semi truck’s trailer and hit their car, according to the Fairfield Police Department.

In a release, police said that at about 3:26 p.m. emergency crews responded to a crash on Ohio 4 at the railroad underpass near St. Clair Avenue.

Officers found that a semi truck hauling a portable storage unit hit the underpass, knocking the storage unit off the trailer to hit a Ford Fusion.

The two people in the Fusion sustained possibly serious injuries and were taken to Kettering Health Hamilton.

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The truck driver was uninjured.

Dixie Highway between Symmes Road and Corwin Avenue was closed as police investigated the scene.

The crash remains under investigation, police said.

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