Zanesville man injured in single-vehicle accident
GAYSPORT, Ohio–A Zanesville man was critically injured in a one vehicle crash in Muskingum County Sunday evening.
According to the Zanesville Post of the State Highway Patrol, the crash took place on Rural Dale Road in Blue Rock Township around 7:30 pm.
Sgt. Jeff Jirles says that 56 year old Scott Milner, driving a Ford pick up, failed to negotiate a turn, going off the side of the road, striking an embankment and coming to rest on the driver’s side in a ditch.
Milner, troopers say, was not wearing a seat belt at the time, was partially pinned under the truck. He was extricated by mechanical means by firefighters.