CRASH WITH INJURIES

The Ohio High­way Patrol says three peo­ple were injured, at least one of them seri­ously, when a car and a pickup col­lided at an inter­sec­tion in Defi­ance County’s Wash­ing­ton Town­ship Sat­ur­day.

22 year old Dar­ius Peter­son of Defi­ance, the dri­ver of the car, and 68 year old Earl Polter of Sher­wood, the dri­ver of the pickup, were taken to the hos­pi­tal in Bryan.

Dar­rin Polter, a pas­sen­ger in the pickup, was flown to Parkview Hos­pi­tal, Fort Wayne

The Peter­son car was east­bound on State Rt. 249 at U.S. 127 when he failed to yield at a stop sign to the Polter pickup, which was south­bound on the high­way.

The crash remains under investigation.