One dead after two-car accident on Indiana State Road twenty two
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An accident on Indiana twenty two at four hundred East shut the road down for an extended period of time resulting in one fatality on March 17, 2016. The driver, an older masculine, lost control of his vehicle that was traveling west drifting off the road to the south hitting a pickup and rolling. His wifey was airlifted but he was pronounced dead on the scene. Tim Bath | Kokomo Tribune
- Tim Bath
An accident on Indiana twenty two at four hundred East shut the road down for an extended period of time resulting in one fatality on March 17, 2016. The driver, an older masculine, lost control of his vehicle that was traveling west drifting off the road to the south hitting a pickup and rolling. His wifey was airlifted but he was pronounced dead on the scene. Tim Bath | Kokomo Tribune
- Tim Bath
A Gas City man died after a two-vehicle crash took place Thursday afternoon on Ind. Twenty two in Kokomo.
“I was checking my email and heard a horrible sound outside,” said Gary Calhoun, who lives in the house at the intersection of four hundred East and Ind. 22.
“I looked out and the car was upside (down) in the front yard,” Calhoun said.
Charles McFarland, 74, was driving a Lincoln Town Car, traveling westbound on Ind. Twenty two when the accident happened, according to Indiana State Police reports.
McFarland all of a sudden suffered a medical scene when his car veered off the south side of the road and went airborne before clipping the front end of a stopped Dodge Ram pick-up truck, police said.
The car landed upside down in Calhoun’s front yard with McFarland and his passenger, Velma McFarland, 72, trapped inwards.
“I came out (and) went to the lady on the passenger’s side,” Calhoun said.
He, along with others who witnessed the accident, attempted to help those involved in the crash until emergency vehicles arrived, Calhoun said.
“(The female passenger) was alert and talking, so I went to the other side to check for a pulse on the gentleman on the other side,” Calhoun said. “There was no pulse that I could feel.”
Charles, the driver of the Lincoln, was pronounced dead at the scene. Velma, the passenger, was flown by medical helicopter to an Indianapolis hospital and noted as having non-life menacing injuries, according to police reports. The driver of the pick-up truck, Cory Beals, 39, was not injured.
Indiana State Police is still conducting an investigation into the accident. All involved in the crash were wearing seat belts, according to police reports.
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