Fatal Crash Outside Central City

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Published on April 17 2017 8:59 am
Last Updated on April 17 2017 8:59 am
Written by Greg Sapp

A Centralia man was fatally injured in a single-vehicle crash in Marion County over the weekend.

State police report a pickup truck driven by 54-year-old John Oettle of Centralia was traveling on Green Street Road east of Brick Hill Road about a mile east of Central City when the crash happened at 2:28pm Saturday.

Police say the pickup crossed the center line and off the roadway to the left, striking a tree. Oettle was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash.