Woman dies after red-light crash in South Toledo

A South Toledo woman whose vehicle struck another after she ran a red light at Hill Avenue and Byrne Road late Saturday afternoon died that evening at a nearby hospital, authorities said.

Daneasha Watson, 31, of the 2300 block of Victory Avenue, was pronounced dead at the University of Toledo Medical Center about three hours after the crash that was reported at 5:28 p.m. Saturday.

A Toledo Police Department statement said Ms. Watson entered the intersection with a red light and while an oncoming vehicle driven by Autumn Twining, 19, of Springfield Township was completing a left turn begun before the light changed. Ms. Watson’s vehicle flipped, hit a pole, and landed right-side up, police said.

Neither Ms. Twining nor her two teenaged passengers were injured, police said. The police report did not specify the vehicles’ direction of travel.