Pickup Truck

Just after 1 a.m. Monday, Niles Police were called to a single-vehicle accident scene in the 1800 block of Terminal Road near Renaissance Drive. Police say 31-year-old Jason Wright of Niles apparently ran off the road, flipping his pickup truck several times. Wright was ejected from the truck and killed. Police say speed and alcohol may have been factors in the crash, but the investigation is ongoing. Stay connected to wsbt.com, WSBT-TV22, Newsradio 960-WSBT and our South Bend Tribune news partners for updates on this story.

A man eventually took himself to a local hospital for treatment of injuries he received after the pickup truck he was driving left Capital Avenue and plunged down a roughly 40-foot embankment and into a pond early Monday morning. The mishap occurred about 12:40 a.m. Monday. The pond is roughly 300-feet off Capital Avenue and about midway between Jefferson Boulevard and Lincoln Way East in Mishawaka, close to Darnell Lake Drive. The man, who was alone in the truck, left the accident scene before emergency workers arrived and later went to the hospital.

GRANGER - St. Joseph County police are looking for the driver of a pickup truck that slammed into a utility pole on Grape Road Sunday morning. Around 6:30 a.m., police were called to Grape and Barton St, just north of Cleveland Road. A county dispatcher tells WSBT no one was inside the truck, but power lines were hanging very low across Grape when emergency crews arrived on the scene. The dispatcher said the truck was locked. American Electric Power was immediately called to help remove the lines and repair possible power outages in the area.

A 21-year-old Vandalia man suffered multiple injuries when the pickup truck he was driving crashed into a garbarge truck Monday morning. In a news release, Cass County Sheriff Joseph M. Underwood Jr. said Zachary Jacobs was driving east on U.S. 12 east of Michigan 217 in Porter Township in Cass County when he failed to see a garbage truck driven by Todd Camilo-Guijosa, 23, which was stopped to make a left turn into a...

Two drivers were taken to the hospital following an accident this morning in Marshall County.   Police say the accident happened on US 30 and Pioneer Road in Plymouth. The driver of a large pickup truck rear-ended a box truck.   The pickup truck was hauling a large semi engine in its bed. That engine went through the cab and pinned the driver during the collision. Crews had to cut him out of the pickup truck and he was airlifted to a local hospital.   Police say the driver of the box truck was also taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

ST. JOSEPH COUNTY - A motorcycle rider was taken to the hospital Friday after a pickup truck hit his bike at the intersection of Jefferson and Bittersweet Roads. The pickup truck was heading south and the motorcycle was heading west when they collided. A WSBT reporter on the scene said the motorcycle rider broke his leg and was taken to an area hospital. It is still unknown if he was wearing a helmet. WSBT has a crew on the scene and we will provide updates as we receive them.

ST. JOSEPH COUNTY - 2 people were badly hurt when their pickup truck crashed into a semi on State Road 331, south of Mishawaka. According to a witness, the pickup truck was heading north shortly before noon Tuesday when it suddenly drifted into the southbound lanes, striking the oncoming semi. The witness was driving behind the pickup at the time of the collision near Layton Road. St. Joseph County police say Larry Evans, 36, of Hitchins, Kentucky was driving the pickup.

A moving company truck, stalled on I-80 at the 12.8 mile marker in Lake County during rush hour Tuesday evening, was first sideswiped by a semi and then rear-ended by an extended cab pickup truck. The pickup truck driver, Joshua Garner, 20, of Griffith, Ind., died at the scene. Police said Garner was changing lanes when his truck hit the rear of the moving truck. Indiana State Police reported when the moving truck from Two Men and A Truck company stalled in the middle right lane of the four-lane highway, its driver DeAndre Perry, 22, of Mishawaka, activated the truck's four-way emergency lights.

One person is dead after a crash in Edwardsburg. It happened just after 11 Friday night on U.S. 12 east of Eagle Lake Road. Police say a pickup truck traveling east crossed the center line, hitting a semi. A third vehicle also hit the truck. The pickup burst into flames and the driver was ejected. That person died at the scene. Their name is being withheld pending family notification. Police say alcohol is believed to be a factor. They are still investigating the crash.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Police say a 30-year-old man was fatally shot inside a pickup truck at a convenience store on the west side of Indianapolis. Officers were called to the store about 3 a.m. Friday, where the passenger in the truck was shot while it was stopped at a gasoline pump. Speedway police Sgt. Jim Thiele says investigators were looking for a car that sped away from the store. Thiele says the slain man and a friend driving the truck stopped at the store after leaving a nearby nightclub but that investigators didn't immediately know whether the shooting stemmed from something that happened there.

ST. JOSEPH COUNTY - 2 people were badly hurt when their pickup truck crashed into a semi on State Road 331, south of Mishawaka. According to a witness, the pickup truck was heading north shortly before noon Tuesday when it suddenly drifted into the southbound lanes, striking the oncoming semi. The witness was driving behind the pickup at the time of the collision near Layton Road. St. Joseph County police say Larry Evans, 36, of Hitchins, Kentucky was driving the pickup.

MILFORD - One person is dead and another was badly hurt after a pickup truck crashed into a tree in northern Kosciusko County. Police and medics were called to State Road 15, just south of County Road 900 North, shortly before 11 p.m. Sunday. The area is just south of Milford and north of Warsaw. Officers arrived and found a 2003 Dodge Ram pickup into a tree, crushing the entire front portion of the truck. Police say the driver, Jason Watson, 37, of Warsaw died on the scene.

GRANGER - St. Joseph County police are looking for the driver of a pickup truck that slammed into a utility pole on Grape Road Sunday morning. Around 6:30 a.m., police were called to Grape and Barton St, just north of Cleveland Road. A county dispatcher tells WSBT no one was inside the truck, but power lines were hanging very low across Grape when emergency crews arrived on the scene. The dispatcher said the truck was locked. American Electric Power was immediately called to help remove the lines and repair possible power outages in the area.

WARSAW - A Warsaw man accused of trying to run over a woman with his pickup truck and leading police on a long high-speed chase is behind bars. City police say an off-duty Warsaw officer saw a fight between a man and woman on West Market Street shortly after 11 p.m. Saturday. The officer then observed the truck accelerate quickly, leaving behind the woman. The man driving the truck then stopped and started backing toward the woman as the woman ran away. The truck went over a curb toward the woman as she kept running.

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - Authorities in Evansville say a man and a woman were killed when the scooter they were riding went out of control on a snowy street and they were hit by a pickup truck. Police Sgt. Jason Cullum says the truck was traveling behind the scooter when it went down in the snow Wednesday on a main street of the city's southeast side. He tells the Evansville Courier & Press and WFIE-TV that the truck driver couldn't stop in time to avoid hitting the two riders.

SOUTH HAVEN, Mich. (AP) - A suspected drunk-driver has been charged with murder in the deaths of a woman and two young children killed when his pickup truck collided head-on with their car in southwestern Michigan, authorities said Thursday. South Haven District Court Magistrate James Becker said 11 felony counts have been authorized against David Glen Johnson. MLive.com previously reported the charges. Van Buren County authorities have said Johnson is from Alabama, but a court filing lists his hometown as Grand Junction, Mich.

JASPER COUNTY - A Valparaiso man is lucky to be alive after his pickup truck crashed, flipped over several times and fell apart. Indiana State Police say shortly before 9 a.m. on Monday, 35-year-old Christopher Bradley was heading south on I-65 just south of the Fair Oaks exit when he swerved to avoid something in the road. Bradley lost control of his pickup, causing it to go off the highway to the left. He overcorrected, came back on 65 where the truck rolled over.

WHITE PIGEON, Mich. (AP) - Authorities say a pickup truck with four flat tires that hadn't run for five or six years was reportedly targeted by thieves in southwestern Michigan. MLive.com reports ( http://bit.ly/S72UwN ) Monday that the truck was taken during the last two to four weeks in White Pigeon, about 80 miles south of Grand Rapids. The St. Joseph County sheriff's department says the red, 2000 Dodge had a 100-gallon aluminum fuel tank in its bed along with an aluminum toolbox.

Two drivers were taken to the hospital following an accident this morning in Marshall County.   Police say the accident happened on US 30 and Pioneer Road in Plymouth. The driver of a large pickup truck rear-ended a box truck.   The pickup truck was hauling a large semi engine in its bed. That engine went through the cab and pinned the driver during the collision. Crews had to cut him out of the pickup truck and he was airlifted to a local hospital.   Police say the driver of the box truck was also taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

MIDDLEBURY - A Middlebury teen was hurt when his bicycle was hit by a pickup truck Wednesday morning. Elkhart County police say the pickup was heading east on County Road 116, east of County Road 16 near Middlebury when the truck collided with the bike driven by 13-year-old Devon Yoder. Authorities say the driver of the pickup was staying on the right side to make sure there was enough room for an oncoming semi when the collision occurred. The pickup driver told police he could not see the bicycle due to the glare from the rising sun. The accident happened around 8 a.m. Yoder was taken to Parkview LaGrange Hospital for head lacerations.