UPDATE: Coroner’s office identifies victim in Lloyd Expressway crash Thursday
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) - Evansville Police Department officials confirm a man is dead after a crash occurred on the Lloyd Expressway Thursday.
Officials say the crash happened near the Weinbach Avenue exit where a coroner was called to the scene.
They say the man’s truck hit the guardrail at the exit ramp.
According to the Vanderburgh County Coroner’s Office, that man has been identified as 53-year-old Scott Wolfe.
A release shows Wolfe died at the scene from blunt force injuries in the accident.
”When callers called in they described it as ‘you need to have people here now’ so, instantly we knew it was going to be a bad accident,” said EPD officer, Taylor Merriss. “Initially we sent a reconstructionist, detective and crime scene to kind of work the accident and it was deemed a fatality.”
We will update this story as we learn more.
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