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"UPDATE"
Three Vehicle Crash Claims One Life
Clinton County-The driver of the 2013 Freightliner has been identified as David K. King, 56 of Milford, OH. Family has been notified. The original release is below.
Clinton County-This morning at about 1:00 a.m. on I-65
northbound near the 160 mile marker (that is two miles north of the SR 28/158
exit), a three vehicle crash has claimed the life of a semi driver.
Preliminary
investigation by Trooper Peter Stephens has revealed that a 2007 Freightliner
truck driven by Eric L. Woudema, 44 of Rensselaer, IN, was NB partially
blocking the right lane. He was pulling
an actuator with a lighted arrow board on the truck directing traffic into the
left lane. A second vehicle, 2015
Chevrolet pickup driven by Troy D. Whitkanack, 47 of Fairbanks, IN was pulling a
trailer with two construction workers picking up traffic cones. Both trucks are owned by Milestone
Construction out of Indianapolis. A
semi-tractor/trailer rig failed to slow or follow traffic signs and hit the
left rear of the actuator, side swiped the Freightliner and then sideswiped the
pickup truck and the trailer. The semi
rig continued northbound and drove off the right side of the roadway, rolled
onto its left side and came to rest.
The driver of the
semi rig was pronounced deceased at the scene by the Clinton County
Coroner. No one else was injured in the
crash. It is unknown at this time of
vehicle information on the semi.
Notification of family is pending.
Both of the other two vehicles sustained damage but appear to be
drivable. The trailer on the pickup was
destroyed. The investigation is continuing.
This is a
construction area with ample signs and markings along the roadway to notify
drivers of the construction ahead. Slow
down while traveling through construction zone.
The life you save may be your own.
Assisting at the
scene were troopers from the Indiana State Police Lafayette Post, Clinton
County Sheriff’s Department, Clinton County EMS and Zore’s Wrecker Service out
of Lebanon, IN.
Suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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