Press Release

WABASH — A Wabash man died after a two-vehicle accident on SR 124 in Wabash County.

At 10:19 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, officers from the Indiana State Police and Wabash County Sheriff’s Department responded to a two-vehicle crash on SR 124 at America Road.

The preliminary crash investigation by Senior Trooper Todd Trottier and Senior Trooper Jeremy Perez shows that Jason Sturgill, 28, Wabash, was driving a 2002 Chrysler mini-van south on America Road, approaching a stop sign at the intersection of SR 124. The van failed to stop at the stop sign and pulled onto SR 124, striking a grain trailer being pulled by a westbound 2018 Freightliner semi-tractor. The Freightliner was driven by Douglas Nicodemus, 45, Columbia City.

Sturgill was pronounced dead at the crash scene. A two-year-old girl in Sturgill’s van was taken via ambulance to a Fort Wayne hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Nicodemus was taken to a local hospital, treated and released.

The crash is still under investigation. Neither the use of alcohol nor narcotics is suspected as having contributed to the crash.