75-year-old man dies in crash on State Road 25 in Tippecanoe County
BUCK CREEK, Ind. (WISH) — A 75-year-old man died in a crash in Tippecanoe County early Tuesday morning, blocking traffic on State Road 25 for several hours.
At 5:45 a.m. Tuesday, Tippecanoe County dispatchers received a 911 call about a crash at the intersection of State Road 52 and County Road 450 North. That’s a few miles northeast of Lafayette near the unincorporated community of Buck Creek.
INDOT says two vehicles were involved in the crash.
First responders arrived and found Kenneth Mueller, of Buck Creek, behind the wheel of a Toyota SUV, the Tippecanoe County Sheriff’s said in a release.
The other driver, identified by police only as a 51-year-old woman from Lafayette, was removed from her SUV and taken to a local hospital with serious injuries.
“Investigation at the scene indicated that the Toyota failed to yield on CR 450, traveling in the westbound direction, as it crossed into the path of the Kia that was traveling northbound on SR 25 North,” the sheriff’s office said.
It was unclear if drugs or alcohol were factors in the crash.
News 8’s Gregg Montgomery contributed to this story.