The Highway Patrol reported a fatal crash around 3:45pm Saturday on Pike Lake Road just west of Morgan’s Fork Road in Benton Township.
35-year-old William Scott of Piketon was westbound in a Ford Ranger on Pike Lake Road, when the vehicle traveled left of center, striking an eastbound Chrysler Pacifica driven by 23-year-old Mykaila Lowman of Waverly.
Lowman was pronounced dead at the scene by the Pike County Coroner. Scott was transported to OSU Hospital for non-life threatening injuries.
Impairment is suspected to have been a factor in the crash, and it remains under investigation by troopers at the Portsmouth Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
The Patrol was assisted on scene by the Pike County Sheriff Office, Pike County Coroner Office, Pebble Twp. VFD, Huntington Twp. VFD and Portsmouth Ambulance.