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Saturday, December 14, 2013

Two people were killed when they were struck by a vehicle in northwest Indiana.

49-year-old William Knight and 42-year-old Linda Darlington, both of Crown Point, were struck by a vehicle in their hometown about 12:15 a.m. Sunday. They both were pronounced dead at the scene.

The Lake County Coroner's office says it appears to be an accident. The Lake County sheriff's office is investigating.

Date: 
Saturday, December 14, 2013

Saturday, Vigo County Sheriff's Deputies along with Indiana State Police and Otter Creek Fire Department responded to a motor vehicle collision involving a minivan and a CSX Railroad train near the intersection of Evans Ave and Dwelling Rd.

The driver, 79 year old Ray M Scheid of Terre Haute, IN was transported to Union Hospital with head and leg trauma.

Initial indications show that Mr. Scheid was westbound on Evans Ave when the train northbound struck the drivers rear section of the minivan.

Date: 
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Crisis counselors were at a northwest Indiana school Monday after a teacher was one of two people killed in a roadside accident over the weekend. The other victim was a man who had tried to help that teacher just hours after he had gotten married. Three cars ran the two over on the side of a road. William Riley Knight was on the way home from his wedding reception when he stopped to help Linda Darlington, whose car had gone into a ditch just before 12 a.m. Sunday along 109th Avenue near Lane Street in Crown Point, Ind.