Jared Crump, 25, of Greenwood, Indiana, died from injuries sustained in a semi-trailer truck crash Wednesday morning.
The Indiana State Police received information from Eskenazi Hospital that Crump succumbed to injures sustained in the crash and was pronounced dead at 1:17 a.m.
Crump was driving a landscaping dump truck with one person in the passenger seat of the vehicle. The passenger in the truck with Crump, 21 year-old Nathan Davis of Indianapolis, also sustained serious injuries and is listed in serious condition at Eskenazi Hospital.
Douglas Watson, 56, of Indianapolis was the driver of the semi-trailer truck and was not injured.
After an ISP preliminary investigation, it appears traffic in the area had slowed to a stop when the landscaping dump truck, pulling a dump trailer, rear-ended the semi-trailer truck in the right lane.
All lanes of Interstate-65 southbound were closed for approximately three hours while the crash was investigated and the wreckage was removed.
Alyson Malinger
