cough drop caused crash

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  1. HalpinUout

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    DELAWARE COUNTY, Ind. (WLS) --
    Indiana State Police said a semi pulling a flatbed trailer crashed through the Living Hope Church in Delaware County after the driver choked on a cough drop.

    State police said a trooper driving southbound on I-69 when he saw cars pulling onto the shoulder. One of those drivers pointed across the road, where the trooper saw the truck had just runt hrough the church. The driver was outside of the truck with non-life threatening injuries.


    Police said Daniel Castel, 44, of Roseville, Mich., told them the last thing he remembered was choking on a cough drop as he drove northbound on the interstate. He ran through the interstate fence, across Delaware County Road 900 W and then crashed through the church.

    No one was in the church at the time. Castel was taken to a local hospital for treatment.

    A four car-crash occurred on northbound I-69 as people slowed down to gawk at the scene, police said. upload_2016-12-10_6-47-16.png
     
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  3. Puppage

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    News flash:

    FMCSA bans all food and drink in truck. Could help avoid 16 crashes per year nationwide.
     
  6. Midnightrider909

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    If you ban coffee in trucks there be a lot more crashes. And this was a cough drop not a foodstuff.
     
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  7. magoo68

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    Choking or not why wouldnt you brake ??? Maybe someone fell asleep
     
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  9. not4hire

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    *cough*
    bul***it
    *cough*
     
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    2 conversations it would be nice to hear is the one with his boss and later with St. Peter
     
  11. KillingTime

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    I'm quite far removed from being a God-Fearing man... But I'd think, if this were me, that He was trying to tell me something... The irony, if true, of choking and running into a church (Heimlich assist credited to the House of God)... I don't think that'd be lost on me. Lol.
     
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