Columbus police on Monday released the identity of the driver who was killed early Saturday morning in a single-vehicle crash on the Far West Side.
Richard Mitchem, 32, of the West Side, was driving a Chevrolet Impala southbound on Hilliard Rome Road at a high rate of speed about 12:45 a.m. Saturday when he lost control just south of the Glenchester Drive intersection, police said.
Police said the car went off the right, or west side of the roadway and crashed into one tree in a row of trees outside an apartment complex.
Mitchem was pronounced dead at the scene by Prairie Township medics. His death was the 15th traffic fatality in the city this year.