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Coroner identifies woman killed in West Chester crash involving ambulance

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WEST CHESTER, Ohio — The Butler County Coroner's Office has identified the woman killed in a crash involving an ambulance in West Chester Tuesday evening.

The crash happened just before 6 p.m. on Beckett Road near the Beckett Park entrance in West Chester. Officials said one of the vehicles was a West Chester Township ambulance returning from a trip where it brought a patient to the hospital.

Officials said two people inside the other vehicle were seriously injured and treated on the scene by the paramedics in the ambulance before being transported to UC Health West Chester Hospital. One woman — identified as 43-year-old Ernestina P. Obeng of Liberty Township — was pronounced dead at the hospital.

Officials did not provide an update on the condition of the other person injured.

The crash is under investigation, according to officials.

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