Sunday, February 8, 2015

FATHER, SON KILLED IN PICKUP TRUCK CRASH IN WESTERN INDIANA. THEY WERE NOT WEARING SEAT BELTS AND SPEED APPEARS TO BE A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR, AS THE TRUCK HIT AN OVERHEAD BRIDGE WHICH IS ABOUT 14 FEET HIGH.



FATHER, SON KILLED IN PICKUP TRUCK CRASH IN WESTERN INDIANA.  THEY WERE NOT WEARING SEAT BELTS AND SPEED APPEARS TO BE A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR, AS THE TRUCK HIT AN OVERHEAD BRIDGE WHICH IS ABOUT 14 FEET HIGH.


February 8, 2015

BLANFORD, INDIANA (AP) — 

A 56-year-old man and his 24-year-old son died after being ejected from a pickup truck in a single-vehicle crash in western Indiana.

Vermillion County Sheriff Mike Phelps says Dennis Church was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash near Blanford in Vermillion County, about 20 miles north of Terre Haute. His son, Dennis Church Jr. died at Union Hospital in Clinton. Both men were from Clinton.

Authorities say the pickup truck went off the road travelling about 235 feet and struck a guardrail.  It then travelled an additional 180 feet along the guardrail before striking the bridge abutment. 

The truck flipped into the air and struck an overhead bridge, which is about 14 feet high. 

The crash remains under investigation. Authorities say they believe speed was a contributing factor in the crash.