(Trail Creek, IN) - A business owner in the Michigan City area had a very close call with a motor vehicle over the weekend.

 

The vehicle took out a NIPSCO pole early Saturday afternoon before crashing into the office at Amish Structures on U.S. 20 in Trail Creek.  A natural gas leak was created when the vehicle took out a gas meter at the business.

 

Coolspring Township Assistant Fire Chief Warren Smith said the vehicle apparently left the highway twice before crashing into an Amish Structures owned pick-up truck.

 

Smith said the truck owned by the business then crashed into the office building and stopped about 10 feet from the owner of the company.  He said a roughly 15 foot wide by 9 foot tall hole was left in the outside wall of the office structure.

 

“He was sitting in the office right behind where the impact came in,” Smith said.

 

Smith said the owner could have been seriously injured or killed had the vehicle not hit the truck and plowed straight into the office.

 

“It’s a good thing his truck was in the way,”  he said.

 

Smith says the driver was being looked over by medics.  We’ll provide more details once they become available.