CLINTON COUNTY — A local driver is dead after a car hit a tree on an area road early Wednesday.
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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.
The car went off the side of the road and hit a tree before it came to a stop.
OSHP said that Stearns was not wearing a seat belt.
State troopers pronounced him dead at the scene, the spokesperson said.
The crash remains under investigation.
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