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Thursday, May 9, 2024

Fiery Huntington Co. I-69 crash leaves semi driver dead, passenger seriously injured

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Fiery Huntington Co. I-69 crash leaves semi driver dead, passenger seriously injured
Fiery Huntington Co. I-69 crash leaves semi driver dead, passenger seriously injured

A semi driver is dead and the truck's passenger was flown to a hospital with life-threatening injuries Thursday morning on Interstate 69 between mile markers 272 and 273.

We now have the name of the semi driver who died in a fiery crash on i-69 thursday morning.the huntington county coroner's office says 57- year-old "jeff kopnick" died from blunt force and thermal injuries, after the semi crashed and caught on fire.

Huntington deputies say kopnick was driving on the highway, when the semi left the road towards the median, just south of the state road five overpass...hitting the center bridge.the coroner's office says the passenger, his wife 48-year-old "shaymarie shower" was ejected from the truck onto the roadway.

She was taken

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