Race Against the Odds: Bike Accident Survivor Runs Cincinnati Marathon
A 29-year-old ran along the streets of Greater Cincinnati on Sunday, keeping pace to complete the 14th Annual Flying Pig Marathon in a little over three hours and coming in fourth among all women runners. 18-months-earlier she was lying in the same streets with a cracked jaw, broken clavicle and sternum, bruised lungs and heart, and a devastating head injury that lead to a near fatal aneurysm. Sunday’s marathon wasn’t her first (she won the Flying Pig in 2005), but considering her condition a year and a half earlier, running it was an amazing feat of self-determination. On a sunny day in...
continue readingCleves Teen Killed in Car Accident
18-year-old Dakota Reamer of Cleves, Ohio was riding his bicycle Friday night around 10:00 p.m. when he was struck by a car while crossing the intersection of U.S. Highway50 at Mount Nebo Road. He was hit by a 2006 Toyota Corolla driven by Mearl Smith, 44, from Fairfield. Smith was driving westbound when the crash occurred. He was not injured in the crash and has not been charged. According to the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Department, Reamer wasn’t wearing any protective gear or reflective material. The Miami Township Fire and EMS took Reamer to Franciscan Western Ridge where the Village...
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