A driver was seriously injured and his passenger died after a single-vehicle crash Sunday morning in Union Township when a vehicle struck a building, police said.
Deputies from the Porter County Sheriff’s Department were called around 7:05 a.m. May 18 for a report of a single-vehicle crash with injuries at the intersection of Ind. 130 and Park Avenue.
Police found a 1994 Nissan Altima had struck a building near the intersection and the driver and passenger had to be extricated, according to a release from Sgt. Ben McFalls, public information officer for the sheriff’s department.
The male driver was flown to the University of Chicago Medicine in Chicago for his injuries and the female passenger later died after being transported to a hospital in Lake County; the Lake County Coroner’s Office is handling that report and additional information was not immediately available.
An initial investigation shows the car is believed to have been traveling westbound on Ind. 130 when it went off the roadway for an unknown reason and struck a building at the intersection with Park Avenue.
Porter County Crash Reconstruction Unit is investigating.
