A trucker died after apparently suffering a heart attack early Tuesday while driving a semi on Interstate 80 near the Cline Avenue exit, Indiana State Police said.
Witnesses described seeing the semi begin to swerve about 1:43 a.m. on I-80 just west of the Cline Avenue exit before suddenly veering off the road and crashing into a utility pole, state police said.
Trucker Lawrence D. Reed, of Canton Ohio and who turned 51 Tuesday, was taken to St. Catherine’s Hospital in East Chicago, Ind., where he was pronounced dead of a cardiac arrest, state police said.
No other cars were involved in the incident and no one else was injured, police said.
Damage to the semi, owned by W.L. Logan Trucking out of Canton, Ohio, was about $10,000, police said.
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