PIERCE TOWNSHIP, Ohio —

A search is underway for the driver of a stolen truck that crashed in the woods early Thursday morning in Clermont County.

It happened along Bradbury Road, right by Nine Mile Tobasco Road around 2:30 a.m. Advertisement

Pierce Township police, Ohio State Patrol and the Clermont County Sheriff's Office are on the scene.

Officials say the truck was stolen out of Hamilton County. Fire and EMS officials in Pierce Township say the truck slammed into the guardrail on a curvy section of a one-lane road, before the vehicle came to a stop in the woods.

One passenger was taken to UC Medical Center by AirCare while a search is underway for the driver, who fled the scene on foot.

Authorities are searching through the thickly wooded area. Police and troopers are searching

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