Ohio trooper going too fast in fatal crash

CAREY, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio State Highway Patrol says a trooper killed in a crash while on duty was driving too fast when his cruiser went off a road and rolled several times.

Investigators say the trooper, who had just graduated from the highway patrol academy, was going 116 mph before the accident in early February.

Trooper Andrew Baldridge died in the crash just outside Carey in northwest Ohio. A training officer who riding with him was injured.

Baldridge was 25 and had graduated from the academy in December.

He was responding to a backup request from a sheriff’s deputy who was searching through a home where vagrants were suspected to be living.