AKRON, Ohio — Authorities are investigating after a 65-year-old man was killed in an Akron crash Thursday evening.
The Summit County Medical Examiner’s Office says the incident happened around 7:20 p.m. The man was driving westbound on W. Thornton Street when he lost control at the intersection of Rhodes Avenue and struck a telephone pole head-on, according to a press release distributed to the media on Friday morning.
He was taken to the Cleveland Clinic Akron General Medical Center where he was pronounced dead at 7:42 p.m. An autopsy has been scheduled for Friday.
The man’s name has not been released.
No additional details were immediately available, but stay with 3News as we will update this story if more information is released.
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Editor's note: Video in the player above was originally published in an unrelated traffic story on Feb. 23, 2022.
