WOOD COUNTY, Ohio — A Michigan man was pronounced dead at the hospital after a crash on I-75 in Wood County Wednesday evening.
Pedro Maldonado, 58, of Shelby Township, was driving northbound on the interstate in Middleton Township when he drove off the roadway and through a right-of-way fence just after 6 p.m., according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
Maldonado then drove across a field and into the backyard of a home on Dowling Road where he struck a drain grate and a metal barrel.
He was taken by ambulance to Mercy Health — Perrysburg Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The cause of the crash is currently unknown.
Shelby Township is in the northern part of the Detroit metro.
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