The Hancock County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a fatal crash.  

The sheriff’s office said Ronald Moening, 77, of Forest, was driving a pickup truck southbound on State Route 37 a little after 7 p.m. Sunday when his truck went off the right side of the roadway.

The truck hit a utility pole and traveled through a field before coming to rest against a trailer in a parking lot south of County Road 304.

Moening was transported to Blanchard Valley Hospital in critical condition and later pronounced deceased.

A passenger in the vehicle, Joan Moening, 79, of Forest, was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.