Police: Steering wheel joke behind fatal crash
Associated Press
VALPARAISO – A car crash that killed a northwest Indiana teenager occurred after the front-seat passenger jokingly pushed on the steering wheel just before the car plowed into a utility pole, police said.
The 20-year-old woman passenger “pushed the steering wheel to the left in a joking manner” last Friday, causing the 20-year-old driver to lose control of his car, the Porter County Sheriff’s Department said.
The vehicle went left of northbound U.S. 231’s center line, and when the driver tried to regain control, the car left the road’s right side, struck a utility pole and rolled into a ditch, police said.
Police say a car crash that killed a northwest Indiana teenager occurred after the front seat passenger jokingly pushed on the steering wheel just before the car plowed into a utility pole
The front seat passenger of a car that went off the road and struck a utility pole, killing a DeMotte teen, pushed the steering wheel as a joke, according to a crash report.
The crash occurred around 3:30 p.m. Friday on Indiana 231 south of Indiana 2 according to Cpl. Ben McFalls, public information officer with the Porter County Sheriff’s Department.