UPDATE — Pierceton Man Dead After Monday Evening Accident
PIERCETON — Trevis Smith, 26, Pierceton, died after a single-vehicle traffic accident last night, Oct. 30, in Pierceton.
Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department and emergency personnel responded at 5:45 p.m. to a vehicle crash on Wooster Road, just west of CR 500E. Deputies arrived and found a single vehicle partially in the roadway with the unconscious driver still in the vehicle.
It was preliminarily determined that the 2007 Chevy driven by Smith was westbound on Wooster Road. The vehicle ran off the roadway and struck a large fence post and gate.
Smith was pronounced deceased at Kosciusko Community Hospital from multiple blunt force trauma injuries.
Kosciusko County Fatal Team members stated that the crash is still under investigation.
Pierceton Fire, Lutheran EMS and the Winona Lake Police Department assisted at the scene.