Driver dead after truck hits Kettering home

KETTERING — A driver is dead after a truck hit a house in a local neighborhood on Friday morning.

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Kettering Police and medics were dispatched just before 6:50 a.m. to the 4200 block of Marshall Road on reports of a vehicle into a building.

The homeowner, Bill Cheers, told News Center 7’s Mason Fletcher that he was sitting in his chair when he first heard “skid screeching.”

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“And I got up because I figured somebody’s going to crash, and all of a sudden, sound like an explosion,” Cheers said.

As shown on News Center 7 at 5:00, we obtained doorbell camera video from a neighbor. It shows the gray truck running off the road and smashing into a tree in Cheers’ yard.

A Kettering Police lieutenant confirmed to News Center 7 that the driver of the truck died at the scene.

Photos from the scene show a pickup truck sustained front-end and rear-end damage from the crash.

Cheers said he was initially sitting about 15 to 20 feet away from where the crash ended. He showed News Center 7 the damage in his dining room.

His dog was lying right under the window as he heard the tires skid down the road.

“There’s a dog lying there. She got tossed,” Cheers said. “She’s got a little cut on her leg, but she’s traumatized. So am I.”

Cheers said he thought the crash was a result of road rage, and so did several neighbors News Center 7 spoke to.

After the crash, the doorbell video shows a white truck shortly after turning left. News Center 7 noticed white paint scraped onto the driver’s door of the gray truck.

Kettering Police said they had to call out extra units to help piece together what this crash looked like as they continue their investigation.

“They can look at debris on the ground and figure out how it got there,” Officer Cynthia James, Public Information Officer for Kettering Police, said. “They can look at marks on the street or in the grass, and figure out how those got there.”

Police are asking anyone in the area of the crash with security or doorbell cameras to review their footage to see if they caught anything related to the crash.

They are also looking for two vehicles believed to be possible witnesses to the crash. One is believed to be a 2019-2021 Toyota Rav 4 and the other is possibly a 2016-2020 Mitsubishi Outlander.

If you have any information on the crash, please contact Ptl. C Ferrell at (937) 296-2555.

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