Truck driver dies in rollover crash north of Lafayette

LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WISH) — Tippecanoe County Sheriff’s Office clang investigators recovered a operator dormant aft being ejected from motortruck Sunday morning.

The operator was not identified successful a quality merchandise from Lt. Matthew S. Couch.

Deputies were called soon earlier 6:40 a.m. Sunday to the single-vehicle, rollover clang successful the 2800 artifact of North Ninth Street. That’s adjacent the Tippecanoe County Community Corrections Center, astir third-quarters of a mile northbound of U.S. 52, besides known arsenic Sagamore Parkway North, and conscionable northbound of the Lafayette metropolis limits.

The achromatic 2012 Chevrolet Silverado was traveling southbound connected North Ninth Street erstwhile for chartless reasons it went near of the centerline adjacent the 3000 artifact of North Ninth Street, traveled crossed the northbound lanes, exited the eastbound broadside of the road, and continued southbound done the enarthrosis area, the merchandise said. Then the motortruck struck brushwood and tiny trees earlier crashing head-on into a ample boulder. The motortruck vaulted disconnected the stone and went airborne, past rolled crossed question lanes and ejected the operator successful a workplace tract connected the westbound broadside of the 2800 artifact of North Ninth Street.

The operator was not wearing a spot belt, and the airbags deployed but were ineffective, the merchandise said.

The probe was turned implicit to the Tippecanoe County Coroner’s Office.

Investigators could not instantly find if drugs oregon intoxicant contributed to the crash.