According to a press release from the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Department, At approximately 09:32 on April 15th, the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Department responded to a fatal crash involving a dump truck and a minivan near the intersection of US Highway 421 and County Road 800 North.
La Porte – According to a press release from the La Porte County Sheriff, at around 2:51am on April 15th, deputies responded to County Road 300 East, south of State Road 4 regarding a personal injury crash.
A press release from the La Porte County Sheriff’s Office stated that on April 14th at around 5:11pm, a deputy was dispatched to the 3600 north block of County Line Road in reference to a reported unconscious subject near New Carslisle.
PLYMOUTH — The Marshall County Coroner’s was notified of a death in the 11,000 block of Hawthorn Rd. east of Plymouth in Marshall County on April 10th.
According to the La Porte County Sheriff’s Office there was a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of US Highway 20 and County Road 300 East in Kankakee Township that resulted in one fatality.
According to a press release from the Starke County Sheriff’s Office, on Friday March 28th, 2025, at approximately 8:02am, Starke County Sheriff’s Deputies were dispatched to a motor vehicle collision at the intersection of CR 800 E. and CR 50 S. in Knox.
Indiana Conservation Officers and the La Porte County Sheriff’s Department are investigating a boating accident Sunday afternoon that reportedly resulted in the death of two men.
Three people are dead, following a four-vehicle crash on U.S. 20 in LaPorte County Tuesday afternoon. The LaPorte County Sheriff’s Office says it involved three passenger cars and one semi-tractor trailer. Continue reading →
A single-vehicle crash claims a life. It happened around 8:30 last night at the intersection of U.S. 6 and Quince Road in Marshall County. Continue reading →
Several snowmobile accidents, including one fatality, were reported over the weekend. The fatality occurred on Lake Manitou in Fulton County early Sunday morning, according to DNR officials. They say James Downs III, 51, of Rochester, was operating his snowmobile alone when the accident happened. Friends found him around 6 a.m. Sunday pinned under his snowmobile. Initial findings indicate Downs was approaching the shoreline, turned too sharply and was thrown from his snowmobile. Officials with the Fulton County Coroner’s Office say he died of blunt force trauma to his chest and torso. Speed, alcohol and reduced visibility are possible contributing factors to the crash, but toxicology results will not be available for several weeks. Continue reading →
Steven Lunn, 52, of Olympia Fields, Ill. had to be cut from the wreckage of his truck.
A truck driver from Olympia Fields, Ill. is dead and a Valparaiso man is in jail after an early morning crash on I-94 in LaPorte County that shut the highway down for about two hours. The wreck occurred near the Indiana-Michigan State Line around 2 a.m. Truck driver George A. Leeth, Sr. of Hammond called 911 from his cell phone to report a suspected drunk driver in an Audi station wagon driving erratically with speeds ranging from 25 to 60 miles-per-hour. The driver, Howard B Gutenstein, 47, of Valparaiso, stopped his car in the middle of the highway, got out and started walking around. Leeth stopped, according to state police, put his flashers on and coaxed Gutenstein back into his car. As Leeth was getting back into his truck, another semi hit him, pushing his truck into Gutenstein’s car. The driver of the second truck, Steven Lunn, 52, of Olympia Fields, Ill.hand to be cut from the cab of his truck and was pronounced dead at the scene of massive trauma. Leeth was taken to a Michigan City hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Gutenstein faces a felony charge of operating while intoxicated causing death and a misdemeanor offense of endangering. State troopers say he had a blood alcohol content of .13 percent.
A crash in LaPorte County Tuesday morning has claimed a life.
