1 dead after car crashes into Middletown mobile home

Credit: DaytonDailyNews

The Hamilton Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a single vehicle that crashed into a mobile home at 12:30 p.m. today on Aspen Street in the Riverside Village Trailer Park.

A 1999 maroon, Oldsmobile Alero, operated by Timothy Perkins, 52, of Middletown, was traveling eastbound on Aspen Street, the patrol said.

A preliminary investigation indicates the Oldsmobile traveled off the left side of the road, and struck a mobile home. The engine compartment caught fire, the patrol said. Perkins was unconscious at the scene for reasons unknown at this time and was pulled from the vehicle.

The driver of a vehicle that crashed into this mobile home in the Riverside Village Trailer Park was pronounced dead at the scene. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF

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Middletown police and paramedics arrived on scene. Perkins was pronounced dead at the scene by Middletown EMS.

The incident remains under investigation by the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

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