Area Accident Reports
Warsaw
Officers with the Warsaw Police Department investigated the following accident:
8:56 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 24, North Detroit Street and East Fort Wayne Street, Warsaw. Drivers: Anne K. Shafer, 74, Poplar Street, Winona Lake, and Hannah F. Morales, 20, North Buffalo Street, Warsaw. Shafer turned right onto Fort Wayne Street into the path of Morales’s oncoming vehicle and they collided. A witness at the scene confirmed both drivers’ reports. Damage up to $10,000.
5:55 p.m. Friday, Jan. 22, Husky Trail south of Canterbury Lane, Warsaw. Driver: John C. Leeper, 30, Park Avenue, Winona Lake. Leeper’s vehicle struck a pedestrian, Sharon R. Mitterling, 67, Husky Trail, Warsaw. Mitterling sustained fatal injuries. Routine toxicology test results are pending for both. Damage up to $5,000.
12:28 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 20, Lake City Highway east of CR 150W, Warsaw. Drivers: Marsha A. Coon, 67, West Old Road 30, Warsaw, and Jennifer E. Bell, 35, Lydia Drive, Warsaw. Bell slowed down for a vehicle in front of her and an unknown male driver driver rear-ended her vehicle; both vehicles were stopped in the road and Coon’s oncoming vehicle hit the unknown driver’s vehicle. The unknown driver left the scene. Bell, pregnant, was transported to Kosciusko Community Hospital for precautionary medial evaluation. Damage up to $50,000.