Former Ohio State soccer participant and 2007 first-team All-American offensive sort out Kirk Barton faces an aggravated vehicular manslaughter cost stemming from a deadly crash in Dublin, Ohio. In keeping with NBC4, the crash occurred Saturday morning simply earlier than 3 a.m. ET and concerned one fatality as 24-year-old Ethan Perry was pronounced useless on the scene. Barton faces a second-degree felony cost on account of working a automobile underneath the affect.
Barton is suspected of driving a Ford F150 Raptor pickup truck “at a excessive charge of pace” on U.S. freeway 33 earlier than he entered Dublin and struck a Lexus. He sustained non-life-threatening accidents and is in police custody awaiting arraignment. Police didn’t say how briskly they believe Barton was driving on the time of the collision. The incident closed a number of roads in Dublin for about seven hours.
Barton has a historical past of visitors offenses, in line with The Columbus Dispatch. Franklin County Municipal Courtroom information present the 40-year-old was cited twice for dashing, as soon as in 2008 and most just lately in 2022. He was arrested in 2010 on suspicion of OVI, however the cost was later dismissed and Barton paid a small positive for a visitors violation. He additionally pleaded down an OVI cost to reckless operation and failure to cease after a second arrest in 2017. That cost resulted in a positive and 180-day license suspension.
Barton was a longtime starter on the Buckeye offensive line. He twice earned All-Massive Ten picks and in 2007 shined as a first-team All-American. The Massillon, Ohio native redshirted his freshman 12 months and logged begins in every of the following 4 seasons en path to a seventh-round choice within the 2008 NFL Draft.
The Chicago Bears chosen Barton with the No. 247 general choose in that draft, and the Ohio State product bounced throughout quite a few rosters earlier than he stepped away from the NFL in 2010. He hung out with seven completely different groups on energetic rosters and apply squads and performed only one skilled sport in 2008 with the Bears.
