Couple killed when logging truck flips
A semitrailer carrying a load of logs overturned and collided with western Indiana couple’s pickup truck, killing both of them, authorities said.
man,59, and his 58-year-old wife, Joyce, died in Friday’s accident along Indiana 63. The Prairie Creek couple’s bodies were not identified by the Vigo County coroner until Saturday.
Vigo County police said a semitrailer carrying a load of logs failed to negotiate a curve on Indiana 63 and overturned near New Harmony Cemetery, colliding with the Strains’ truck.
Firefighters used the jaws of life to retrieve the couple’s bodies from their truck at the crash scene a few miles southwest of Terre Haute.
A second pickup truck that was traveling about 50 feet behind the Strains’ truck when the accident occurred was able to avoid the trailer, but still hit some of the logs.
The driver of the semitrailer was taken to Terre Haute Regional Hospital where he was treated and released, according to a Vigo County Sheriff’s Department news release.
