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Union Mills Man Crashes Car On Indiana 39; Lands On LaPorte Runway

An Indiana man was found dead on an airport runway – perhaps hours after his car left the road and crashed almost 500 feet from the highway. Although an alert driver called in the crash to 911 at 6:30 in the morning, investigators say that the fatal IN car crash probably happened much earlier that day judging by the cold engine and the frost on the car.

LaPorte County Coroner John Sullivan said that the driver of the vehicle, 49-year-old Douglas Justice, was found dead at the scene of the accident. He had been thrown over 100 feet from his car and had come to a rest on a LaPorte airport runway. His car was almost 500 feet from the road and had flipped side to side and end to end before stopping. Although the IN car accident probably occurred during the night, it was only seen after the sun rose.

Sullivan said that Justice was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the car accident and had a blood alcohol level of 0.264, over three times the legal limit. In addition, crash site investigators believe the car was traveling at high speeds just before the accident took place – between 80 and 100 miles per hour. He died of massive multi-system trauma, according to the coroner.

Justice was last seen around dinnertime the night before the fatal Indiana car accident. Investigators said that any plane landing on the runway after the LaPortte accident would have crashed, but that the airport was closed overnight and on the weekends.

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