Updated: 10:47 AM EDT May 28, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio A man is dead and another man was injured in a crash that happened in east Columbus Thursday night.
Columbus police say the crash happened just before 10:15 p.m. at the intersection of East 5th and Bassett avenues.
For reasons which are still under investigation, a vehicle swerved to the right causing the car to cross the sidewalk where 47-year-old Michael Womack was walking.
The vehicle struck Womack before hitting a utility pole on the southwest corner of the intersection of South 5th and Bassett avenues.
Womack was pronounced dead at the scene at 10:25 p.m.
Community Day at the Birdiest Festival in America
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and last updated 2021-04-24 15:54:02-04
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas â Saturday you can celebrate the Birdiest Festival in America at the South Texas Botanical Gardens and take a look at some fine feathered friends.
The annual event is a celebration of spring migration here in Corpus Christi. Michael Womack, the Executive Director of the South Texas Botanical Gardens and Nature Center, is excited to welcome families to the area. We were named Birdiest City in America for ten years in a row before the contest was discontinued, Womack said. So this is the time where there are more birds in this area than anywhere else in the country.
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Family prays for Michael Womack s safe return
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Apryll Pittman, Michael Womack’s sister, prays with family and friends during a ceremony Wednesday night in Alton. Womack has been missing for 13 years. Show MoreShow Less
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ALTON In 2008, Michael A. Womack of Alton went missing without any trace.
Thirteen years later, family and friends gathered Wednesday to release balloons in his memory, hoping he will be found.
Apryll Pittman, Womack’s sister, said the family tries to get together every year to do a balloon release.
“If Michael is out there, then he knows that his family is still waiting for him,” Pittman said.