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UPDATE: Troopers ID 3 killed in Clark County crash

CLARK COUNTY — State troopers have identified the three people killed in a Clark County crash on Friday.

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Around 1:48 p.m., Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers were called to a crash on state Route 4 at Prairie Road in Moorefield Township.

An initial investigation found that a Mercedes-Benz GLX driven by a 58-year-old Tamara Jones from Maryland was traveling north on Parairie Road.

Jones failed to yield at a stop sign and was hit by a semi-trailer that was traveling northeast on State Route 4.

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The semi and the Mercedes-Benz continued off the north side of the road, and the Mercedes overturned and hit a fence.

When the semi overturned, it hit a Jeep Wrangler.

Jones and two passengers in the Mercedes-Benz — Carolyn Honore, 80, of Urbana, and Cheryl Ceasar, 79, of Columbus — died from their injuries.

The driver of the semi and the driver of the jeep were taken to the hospital with minor injuries.

The crash remains under investigation.

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