(Lake County, IN) - A crash on an area interstate claimed the life of a Chesterton man over the weekend.
Around 2:30 a.m. Saturday morning, Indiana State troopers responded to a crash report in the eastbound lanes of I-80/94 near Gary.
They found a 2024 Honda Civic crashed into the back of a box truck which was parked on the shoulder. Investigators determined that the truck had pulled over due to mechanical problems and placed orange cones in the vicinity as a warning. For unknown reasons the Civic left the roadway and rear-ended the truck. First responders found the driver, 36-year-old Corey Stephen Nicholas of Chesterton, unresponsive behind the wheel. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The other driver was in the cab of the box truck at the time of the crash but was not injured. Officers said he was not impaired. An autopsy and toxicology tests for Nicholas are pending.
