VERMILION, Ohio (WJW) -- A 34-year-old woman died early Sunday morning after she crashed a truck along a Vermilion road.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol, who is investigating the accident, wrote in a morning news release that Sarah Gehringer of Wakeman, Ohio was behind the wheel of a Dodge Dakota on Darrow Road, just east of Furnace Street around 12:15 Sunday morning.

According to OSHP, she was driving too fast exiting a curve and lost control of the truck. Her vehicle went off the left side of the road and hit a utility pole and two trees. The impact caused her to be thrown from the vehicle.

Gehringer was pronounced dead at the scene.

She was not wearing a seatbelt, OSHP said, and drugs and alcohol appeared to be factors in the crash.

The incident remains under investigation.

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