Area Accident Reports
Claypool
Officers with the Claypool Police Department investigated the following accident:
6:39 a.m. Friday, Oct. 31, South SR 19 north of West CR 900N, Akron. Driver: Cory W. Rogers, 27, East 18th Street, Rochester. Hit deer. Damage up to $5,000.
Kosciusko
Officers with the Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department investigated the following accidents:
7:09 p.m. Friday, Oct. 31, North CR 500W, north of West CR 1250N, Nappanee. Driver: W. K. Hartman, 52, North CR 425W, Milford. Hit deer. Damage up to $5,000.
8:14 a.m. Friday, Oct. 31, South CR 250E and US 30E, Warsaw. Drivers: Renee L. Crim, 32, Lakeview Drive, Winona Lake, and Lindsey B. Tomer, 22, Seminary Drive, Winona Lake. Crim’s vehicle slid on the rain covered roadway and struck the back of the Tomer vehicle. Damage up to $5,000
6:32 a.m. Friday, Oct. 31, Bluebird Drive and Walnut Creek Boulevard, Warsaw. Drivers: Gary L. Nifong, 52, Bluebird Drive, Warsaw, and Angela R. Banghart, 39, Hepler Drive, Warsaw. Nifong was backing from a driveway and struck the Banghart vehicle. Damage up to $1,000.
10:56 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30. East Old Road 30 west of East Old Trail, Pierceton. Driver: Jasper J. Hurst, 32, West CR 700N, Columbia City. Hit deer. Damage up to $2,500
North Webster
Officers with the North Webster Police Department investigated the following accident:
6:30 a.m. Friday, Oct. 31, North Main Street, North Webster. Drivers: David J. Esterline 50, East Ryerson Road, Pierceton, and Zoa C. Zentz, 53, North Camelot Lane East, Cromwell. Esterline was backing from a parking space and failed to see the Zentz vehicle pulling into the parking space next to him. Damage up to $2,500.
Warsaw
Officers with the Warsaw Police Department investigated the following accidents:
10:31 p.m. Friday, Oct. 31, Shelden Street and Petro Drive, Warsaw. Driver: Dustin W. Wright, 24, North Harrison Street, Syracuse. Suffered minor bleeding to the elbow/lower arm. Wright’s vehicle struck a curb. He was cited for driving while suspended. Damage up to $2,500.
5:25 p.m. Friday, Oct. 31, South Buffalo Street north of East Prairie Street, Warsaw. Drivers: Brandi M. Houlihan, 21, East SR 124, Wabash, and Don C. Nelson, 33, West Pike Street, Warsaw. Houlihan’s vehicle struck the back of the Nelson vehicle. Damage up to: $2,500.
4:31 p.m. Friday, Oct. 31, Lake City Highway east of Commerce Drive, Warsaw. Drivers: Bradley R. Werblo, 19, Champagne Court, Fort Wayne, and Kristi K. Fugett, 44, West CR 250N, Larwill. Werblo’s vehicle struck the back of the Fugett vehicle. Damage up to $1,000.
4:14 p.m. Friday, Oct. 31, Kinney Drive and Lakeland Drive, Warsaw. Drivers: Andrea M. Carley, 21, Tamara Trail, Hermitage, Pa., and Miranda Zellmer, 23, Short Ridge Drive, Warsaw. Carley turned her vehicle too soon into a parking spot, in front of the Zellmer vehicle. Damage up to $5,000.
12:56 p.m. Friday, Oct. 31, West Pike Street south of North Union Street, Warsaw. Driver: Scott A. Wilson, 44, East CR 400S, Columbia City. A trailer pulled by WIlson’s vehicle struck a parked vehicle registered to Manuel B. Marin, West Pike Street, Warsaw. Damage up to $2,500.
7:28 a.m. Friday, Oct. 31. 1 Tiger Lake. Drivers: Ryan A. Tucker, 17, North CR 100E, Warsaw, and Dyllion M. Cole, 17, West Hoffman Lake Road, Warsaw. Tucker was driving across parking spaces in the parking lot and struck the Cole vehicle. Damage up to $5,000.