I got word this evening that a guy I went to school with was killed about noon today in a pickup truck-buggy crash.
(This photo is from a non-fatal truck-buggy crash earlier this year in northern Indiana, but you get the idea.)
His name was Steve Royer and he was a classmate until he dropped out of school at 16, as was the custom for boys of the Old German Baptist Brethren faith in Carroll County, Indiana.
Friends tell me Steve was on Ind. 75 near Flora, Ind., when his buggy was rear-ended by a pickup truck.
Police said Steve, 64, was thrown from the buggy and killed.
Carroll County Sheriff's Deputy John Chapman said the truck's driver, John T. Justice, 87, rural Logansport, didn't see the buggy as he came up behind it and struck it in the rear.
Steve was pronounced dead at the scene from multiple blunt force trauma. The horse also died. Justice was not injured.
My grandfather and all of his forebears were German Baptists. Like his ancestors, Grandpa was a farmer, but he broke with the church, became a Presbyterian. He also served as a township trustee and the Carroll County Treasurer. He died about a month before I was born in 1945.
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We covered Mr. Royer's accident and death .. the photos were astounding as there was nothing left of the buggy. It appeared as though the truck driver did not even try to slow down or swerve. I haven't read anymore on whether or not the truck driver was drunk or impaired in some way. Very sad.
Your guy got some good photos. He needs to learn to spell "sergeant" though.
lol ... indeed. Good catch.
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