Two-Car Accident Near County Road 652

Three people are injured after a two-car accident earlier this evening.

Trooper Steven Williams of the Zanesville Post of the State Highway Patrol says at around 5 p.m., 70-year-old Charlene Prince of Trinway was driving a silver sedan and traveling northbound on County Road 652. She failed to stop at a stop sign, striking 59-year-old Carolyn Hill of Mount Perry, who was driving with a juvenile in a red Ford pick-up truck and traveling eastbound on U.S. 22.

"The female that was in the silver sedan suffered extensive injuries, she is being flown by medflight, the two subjects that were in the red Ford pick up truck were taken by squad to Good Samaritan Medical center."

Emergency personnel had to use the jaws of life to remove Prince from the silver sedan. Her left leg was pinned in between the car door and dashboard.

"This extrication with the way that the vehicle was down into the ditch and the landscape here, it actually took us 55 minutes, we weren’t able to fully get in," said Captian Craig Knox of the Newton Township Fire Department "so we had to cut away a little bit and then stop and reassess, look at her injuries, take care of her, and then do some more and go from there."

Prince was taken by Medflight to the Ohio State University Medical Center where she is listed in serious condition. Troopers say she will be cited with failure to yield.