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Photo from the scene of a one car crash at the merge lane of East-bound 1-70 onto Southbound I-75 Monday 11/23/09 that sent the occupants, one adult, one child to area hospitals.

Jim Witmer Photo from the scene of a one car crash at the merge lane of East-bound 1-70 onto Southbound I-75 Monday 11/23/09 that sent the occupants, one adult, one child to area hospitals.

By Staff report Updated 11:57 PM Monday, November 23, 2009

VANDALIA — A multi-car crash bottled up traffic along southbound Interstate 75 just south of Interstate 70 on Monday, Nov. 23.

At least one person, a child, was injured in the crash, according to police and fire department radio broadcasts.

The accident occurred about 9:30 a.m., roughly 30 minutes before Gov. Ted Strickland was scheduled to participate in the ceremonial removal of the last orange barrel on the I-75/I-70 interchange project.

John Faulkner, a Xenia Twp. trustee and first vice chair of the Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission, was on his way to the ceremony when he heard the accident.

“I was sitting in my vehicle and I heard crunching sounds,” Faulkner said.

One car involved plowed into several large landscaping rocks and appeared to have been struck from behind.

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