(24/7 News Source) -- The Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a deadly weekend auto accident in Athens that claimed the lives of two Ohio University students. The incident was first reported at around 8:30 a.m. Sunday.
The patrol reports that at sometime during the overnight, 23-year-old Laiken Salyers of Wheelersburg and Richard Turner of Orange, New Jersey were traveling East on Dairy Lane and lost control of their vehicle on the ice-covered roadway.
Their vehicle went off the road and flipped onto its top in a creek and was partially submerged.