Nashville – Just after 12 noon today a motorcyclist lost his life on Salt Creek Road east of Nashville and south of Brown Hill Road. Louis Sitter, 49 was killed after a collision with a Brown County Highway Department Grader Tractor while on his 2007 Honda Motorcycle.
Sitter was traveling southbound on Salt Creek Road headed toward State Road 46 and lost control of his motorcycle, laying it down left of center and directly into the northbound path of the John Deere Grader Tractor. The Brown County Highway Department Driver, John Rodgers, 37, of Morgantown, took evasive action but was not able to avoid Sitter.
Sitter’s family has been notified.
Indiana Law requires drivers involved in a serious personal injury or fatal crash to submit to a chemical test which Rodgers willingly did so. Officers at the scene had no reason to believe that Rodgers was under the influence of any drug or chemical that would be attributed to the crash.
The Brown County Sheriff’s Department along with the Nashville Police Department and the Brown County Coroner all assisted at the scene.
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