Time: Around 11:30 A.M.
"Two
people were killed, including an Indiana Toll Road maintenance worker,
after a crash this morning on I-90 in LaPorte County, Ind., officials
said.
In addition to the fatal injuries, another toll road worker
was injured in the crash that happened at about 11:30 a.m. at mile
marker 39.8 just east of the Michigan City exit, according to Indiana
State Police officials.
Police dispatchers had received a call about a speeding, erratic
driver traveling west on the roadway and was in the process of
dispatching the information to police when the same vehicle, a red 2005
Hyundai Santa Fe, struck the rear of a maintenance pickup truck,
officials said.
The pickup truck was parked on the inner shoulder
of the westbound lanes with its lights and a lit arrow board activated
on the truck, police said. There was a sign behind the pickup warning
drivers of workers up ahead, police said.
Daniel J. Miller, 52, of
LaPorte who had just been a passenger in the truck, had stepped out and
walked behind the truck to retrieve trimming equipment from the truck
bed when the Hyundai struck him and the rear of the pickup, according to
police.
Miller was pronounced dead by the LaPorte County Coroner. He had worked for the toll road for 17 years, officials said.
Paul
A. Kimbrugh, 78 of Coldwater, Mich. and Cape Coral, Fla. who was the
driver of the Hyundai was pronounced dead after being airlifted to South
Bend Memorial Hospital.
The second maintenance worker who was in
the pickup was taken to Saint Anthony's Hospital in Michigan City with
non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
The westbound lanes of the toll road were closed for about two hours."
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