Crash In DKC

In DeKalb County…officials tell reporters…an Ohio man was speeding…and drinking…when he drove off State Road 8…crashing into a tree. The SUV is found…facing south…resting on the driver’s side of the vehicle. The driver, 25-year-old Austin Ziehr of Edgerton…is pinned inside the vehicle. Crash investigators think the SUV drifted off the south side of the road into a deep ditch. It continued eastbound off the road until it hit a large tree, on the front passenger side. The car then rotated ninety degrees back onto the road and rolled onto the driver’s side. Ziehr was pulled out and taken to the hospital. He is in stable condition. Both speed and alcohol are believed to be factors in the crash. The SUV is totaled. The accident remains under investigation