A police chase in Pulaski and Jasper counties Wednesday morning reportedly led to the arrest of a Kingsford Heights man on drug possession charges. A Pulaski County sheriff’s deputy says he responded to a call about a possible impaired driver around 12:30 a.m. He says he located the vehicle, but instead of stopping, it sped away, before eventually crashing in Jasper County.
Continue readingThree people were hurt in a crash Wednesday at Starke County Road 300 East and Old U.S. 30. A photograph of the scene showed a damaged pickup truck and minivan off of the roadway. The Starke County Sheriff’s Office says Nellie Arndt, 84, was still trapped in her vehicle when deputies arrived, while Lee Nagai, 55, was out of his vehicle tending to a juvenile passenger with injuries.
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LaPorte City Police are investigating, after two shootings were reported on Sunday. Two people were reportedly taken to South Bend Memorial Hospital with gunshot wounds, after officers were called to a disturbance at around 3:00 a.m. in a parking lot across the street from Mickey’s Bar & Grill, according to a statement from the Mayor’s Office.
Continue readingThree people were hurt in a series of crashes on U.S. 20 in LaPorte County Tuesday afternoon. It started just after 3:20, when LaPorte County Police say a 2001 Chevrolet Monte Carlo was heading north on State Road 39, and its brakes apparently failed as it was approaching the U.S. 20 stoplight.
Continue readingA 17-year-old South Bend girl is in stable condition, after a head-on crash in San Pierre Sunday morning. Starke County Sheriff Bill Dulin says it happened around 9:00 a.m. at U.S. 421 and Ann Street.
Continue readingA crash on U.S. 35 in rural LaPorte County Wednesday morning sent one person to the hospital. The LaPorte County Sheriff’s Office says it happened around 7:20 just south of Schultz Road. Officers believe Rachel Tibbs, 67, of LaPorte, was driving south on U.S. 35 in a 2014 Ford SUV, when for unknown reasons, the vehicle left the roadway, traveled into a ditch, and overturned, coming to a rest on its roof.
Two people were injured in a three-vehicle accident at the intersection of U.S. 6 and U.S. 421 at the south junction in La Porte County Saturday morning.
A North Judson man lost his life and a Knox man remains in critical condition as the result of a Thursday evening motorcycle accident.
Officers with the Starke County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call of an incident involving two motorcycles around 5:45 p.m. on Thursday, April 12th. Continue reading
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A LaPorte County man was seriously injured in a snowmobile crash early Monday morning. Indiana Conservation Officers say it happened around midnight in a field near Hanna. Investigators believe Charles Zbuka, 38, was riding across the field at about 40 miles per hour, when he crashed into a large ditch.
Two people are dead and one person was hurt, after a crash Friday night on U.S. 20 in LaPorte County. The LaPorte County Sheriff’s Office says it happened around 7:40 p.m. near Bootjack Road, east of Rolling Prairie.
A LaPorte County man was trapped under an SUV for roughly 45 minutes Thursday afternoon, after it reportedly rolled away from the motor home it was attached to. The LaPorte County Sheriff’s Office says it happened just before 12:30 p.m. in the 4800 block of North 600 West, near Michigan City.
Three people were taken to hospitals Friday, after a crash on U.S. 30 and County Road 1100 East. The Starke County Sheriff’s Office says it happened just after 11:30 Friday morning.
Two people were injured after a crash in LaPorte County Wednesday morning. Deputies from the LaPorte County Sheriff’s Office were called to the intersection of U.S. 20 and Fail Road around 5:45 a.m. Continue reading
A rural LaPorte County resident allegedly led police on a high-speed chase, before apparently crashing the car and suffering serious injuries. Shortly after 1:00 Friday morning, a LaPorte County Sheriff’s Deputy spotted an orange Nissan 350 Z traveling north at a high rate of speed on U.S. 421. Continue reading
The LaPorte County Sheriff’s Office has released the names of those involved in Tuesday’s fatal, four-vehicle crash on U.S. 20. Continue reading
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
The Star City woman ejected from her vehicle in a crash in Pulaski County over weekend is in critical condition.
The LaPorte County Sheriff’s Department investigated a two vehicle accident on Johnson Road at the Indiana Toll Road on Tuesday morning.
Deputies were called to the scene at 8:29 a.m. CT where a 31-year-old driver from LaPorte was stopped at the stop sign, entered the intersection and was struck by a pickup truck. The pickup hit the driver’s side of the car, according to police. The driver and her children were transported to IU Health LaPorte Hospital. One child was subsequently airlifted to South Bend Memorial Hospital with non-life threatening injures.
Johnson Road between County Road 400 West and County 500 West was closed for two hours while officers reconstructed the accident scene as part of their investigation.
The driver was cited for failure to yield the right of way.
A woman involved in a two-vehicle accident at the intersection of Range Road and State Road 10 in Starke County on Monday morning died of massive blunt force trauma, according to St. Joseph County Deputy Coroner Chuck Hurleus.
The woman’s identity has not been released.
Emergency personnel were called to the scene shortly after 11 a.m. on Monday where Starke County Sheriff’s Deputies police found semi tanker on its side and on fire. A passenger car was located on the side of the roadway, according to the accident report. The driver of the passenger car was taken to South Bend Memorial Hospital where she later died of her injuries. The passenger of the vehicle and the semi driver were taken to IU Health Starke Hospital and later transferred to South Bend Memorial Hospital.
A semi vs. passenger car accident at the intersection of State Road 10 and Range Road just east of North Judson Monday morning resulted in fatal injuries.
Officers arrived at the scene shortly after 11 a.m. and found a semi tanker on its side engulfed in flames. The passenger car involved in the accident was located on the side of the roadway, according to the accident report. The driver was airlifted from the scene to South Bend Memorial Hospital where she later died of her injuries. The passenger and the semi driver were taken to IU Health Starke Hospital and later transferred to South Bend Memorial Hospital. Their medical conditions are unknown.
