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OHP Investigating Chillicothe Dispatcher

The State Highway Patrol is investigating whether a dispatcher properly responded when Chillicothe police called to report a reckless driver shortly before a fatal crash on July 4th. An attorney was killed when a sport utility vehicle struck her vehicle on state Route 50. Before the crash, an officer alerted the patrol about an SUV speeding out of the city. A patrol spokesperson says the dispatcher did not send a trooper  or forward the call to another agency for possible follow-up. She says officials also are investigating an allegation that the employee failed to correctly log the call. Charges are pending against the SUV driver.

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.