(WBBM NEWSRADIO) – A dramatic rescue Tuesday in northwest Indiana followed a traffic accident in which the driver of a pickup truck may have been trapped in his vehicle for days.
The crash occurred on westbound I-94, about a mile east of the Portage exit. Police say the driver was seriously injured and couldn’t reach his cell phone. The pickup truck he was driving wound up below an underpass and could not be seen from the highway above.
Indiana State Police Sgt. Glen Fifield said two fishermen found the driver in the badly damaged truck around 3:45 p.m.
“They touched the body, and the person turned their head and started talking to them. So, that got a little rise out of them,” he told WBBM Newsradio.
The fisherman told police the driver said he’d been trapped since Dec. 20.
The driver was airlifted to a hospital in South Bend, Indiana for treatment for life-threatening injuries, police said.
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