Victim of fatal accident Wednesday died before impact

The victim of a fatal crash last Wednesday on Old State Road 37 died before impact, said Monroe County Sheriff’s Department Chief Deputy Scott Mellinger. \nBloomington resident Wilburn Brown, 78, was heading northbound when his car crossed into the opposite lane, striking the guardrail before hitting an oncoming vehicle head on. \nBrown was pronounced dead at the scene.\nMellinger said the cause of death could not be determined at the time of the autopsy, but was “convinced” the cause was medical. \nParth Chauhan and Mila Norman, two IU Stone Age Institute faculty members, were in the southbound vehicle and sustained minor injuries.