(La Porte County, IN - The fogged-up eyeglasses of a driver could have been a factor in him hitting a pedestrian in Rolling Prairie.

At roughly 9 a.m. on Friday at the OTEC Corporation, the driver, Thomas McMeans, 59, of Mishawaka was backing up from a parking space during a period of heavy rainfall per La Porte County Police.

McMeans told investigators his eyeglasses were wet and foggy and while backing up heard a “loud thump."

The pedestrian, Alejandro Ramirez, 35, of Chicago was walking toward his semi-tractor trailer, which was backed into a loading deck at the time he was struck. Ramirez complained of pain in his upper leg and the right hand he used to try and cushion his fall, police said. He declined medical treatment.