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.