By Kelli Wynn
Dayton Daily News
Copyright 2007 Dayton Newspapers, Inc.
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Police and emergency medical personnel could not find the second victim in Sunday night’s fatal car accident on Interstate 70 because that victim was “in a ditch area in about four foot of weeds and over a six-foot chain-link fence that divided the interstate from the residential area,” Ohio Highway Patrol Lt. Joseph Gebhart said Tuesday.
A woman discovered the body of Chelsey Wells, 19, of Pinegreen Drive in Butler Twp., in back of a home in the 1100 block of Sunset Drive.
“I walked over this morning because I heard something yesterday but I couldn’t see it because of the tall fence in the back of our development. So I walked over this morning to see if that car had gone through the fence and there is a dead body laying there behind all these bushes. I can see where they wouldn’t have seen it when they picked up that car,” the woman told an Englewood 911 dispatcher Monday morning.
There was a privacy fence near the body that was behind the chain-link fence that separated the residential area from the interstate, Gebhart said. “A portion of the privacy fence had been knocked down,” he said.
Fifteen hours prior to the discovery, troopers found that passers-by had pulled Lindsey Bolton, 18, of Vandalia from the Chevy Cavalier that had ended up in a ditch off the right side of the interstate, Gebhart said, noting Wells was 50 feet beyond that point.
He said troopers have not interviewed Bolton, who is in Miami Valley Hospital.
Speed is being blamed. Troopers are trying to determine who was driving.