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One person died in a crash involving a state trooper vehicle near Gary.The trooper's vehicle crashed with two other vehicles while traveling eastbound on the Indiana Toll Road around 1:30 p.m. Friday.The trooper was attempting to cross several lanes of traffic when a pick-up truck hit his vehicle and then hit a Ford Fusion head-on, killing its driver, Lucas Del Valle, 51, of Amherst, Ohio. Del Valle's wife, two daughters, the state trooper, and the driver in the pick-up truck were hospitalized with minor injuries.