Death: Driver killed after crashing into utility poles during police chase – According to officials, a driver in a black Honda Civic died Friday morning after crashing into two utility poles during a police chase. According to a news release from the Ohio Highway Patrol’s Canton post, Joshua K. Hazzard, 23, of Bellflower Avenue NW in Canton, was driving west on State Route 172 “at a high rate of speed escaping from Massillon Police” when the incident happened.
According to the-review.com, the announcement, Hazzard lost control of his vehicle, which veered off the left side of the road and collided with a mailbox and two poles. Sgt. Brett Claxon of the Ohio Highway Patrol said the driver was fleeing Massillon police who had attempted to stop the automobile when it collided just before 7 a.m., according to investigators.
Harry Campbell, the Stark County Coroner’s officer’s top investigator, pronounced Hazzard dead on the scene. The police from Massillon who were involved in the chase were unharmed. The driver, according to a heartbroken couple at the scene, was their nephew, who was on his way to work at a local business.
