Another Recovery Related Death
Greenwood, Indiana
A Greenwood man was killed in a car wreck early this morning after he sped away from a man trying to repossess his car, according to a police report.
Robert R. Parks, 54, crashed into a utility pole after speeding through a curve and losing control of the 2006 Chevy HHR he was driving near the intersection of Peterman Road and Smith Valley Road. He was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident.
The Johnson County Sheriff's Department gave the following account:
About five minutes after police arrived on the scene shortly after 2:15 a.m., Diversified Recovery agent Richard Young came upon the accident. He told police that he had been hooking the rear wheels of a blue 2006 Chevy HHR onto a lift at Friendly Village trailer park and was about to drive off when he saw some movement and the brake lights of the vehicle. The car then was driven off the lift and through the trailer park at a high rate of speed, the agent told officers.
The agent told police he was going to proceed to his next recovery and drove southbound on Peterman Road when he came across the accident scene involving the same blue 2006 Chevy HHR.
Police identified the driver as Parks, the name of the person whose vehicle Young was supposed to recover.
A coroner drew blood for a toxicology screening as part of the accident investigatio
A Greenwood man was killed in a car wreck early this morning after he sped away from a man trying to repossess his car, according to a police report.
Robert R. Parks, 54, crashed into a utility pole after speeding through a curve and losing control of the 2006 Chevy HHR he was driving near the intersection of Peterman Road and Smith Valley Road. He was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident.
The Johnson County Sheriff's Department gave the following account:
About five minutes after police arrived on the scene shortly after 2:15 a.m., Diversified Recovery agent Richard Young came upon the accident. He told police that he had been hooking the rear wheels of a blue 2006 Chevy HHR onto a lift at Friendly Village trailer park and was about to drive off when he saw some movement and the brake lights of the vehicle. The car then was driven off the lift and through the trailer park at a high rate of speed, the agent told officers.
The agent told police he was going to proceed to his next recovery and drove southbound on Peterman Road when he came across the accident scene involving the same blue 2006 Chevy HHR.
Police identified the driver as Parks, the name of the person whose vehicle Young was supposed to recover.
A coroner drew blood for a toxicology screening as part of the accident investigatio
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