Dec. 23—A Fairborn man accused of driving while impaired when he tried to pass another vehicle in August 2023, leading to a four-vehicle injury crash in Vandalia, faces up to five years in prison.
Ryan William Ross, 24, pleaded guilty Monday before Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Angelina Jackson to vehicular assault and a misdemeanor OVI count. An aggravated vehicular assault charge was dismissed.
The crash happened at 11:10 a.m. Aug. 5, 2023, and seriously injured a 45-year-old Vandalia man who was taken to Miami Valley Hospital, according to a Vandalia Division of Police crash report.
Ross was driving a 2018 Dodge Charger north in the 8400 block of South Brown School Road when he struck a 2018 Chevrolet pickup truck head-on while attempting to pass a 2014 Honda CR-V, the report stated.
The Charger continued north and side-swiped the Honda driven by a 53-year-old Vandalia man and then hit a 2018 Ford Focus driven by a 25-year-old West Milton man traveling behind the pickup, the crash report stated.
When Jackson sentences Ross on Jan. 13 he also will have his driver’s license suspended for between one and three years, according to plea documents.
Ross is incarcerated in the Noble Correctional Institution in Caldwell for a drug-related conviction in Greene County Common Pleas Court. He began serving a 3- to 4 1/2 -year prison sentence in September, according to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation & Correction website.