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As the summer driving season nears, Indiana State Police are responding to a growing and troubling trend that shows no sign of slowing down: shootings on interstate highways in the Hoosier State. State troopers are always out there, patrolling more than 3,000 interstate miles, responding to crashes and emergencies and trying to keep our roads as safe as possible. Now, unhinged people with guns have become a curse, endangering the lives of motorists and law enforcement officers. Read More Here: https://www.therepublic.com/2022/04/01/editorial-shootings-on-interstates-demand-action/
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This topic was created back in July of 2005. Wondering what the rates are today. NORMAL -- You'll have to dig deeper into your pockets if your vehicle gets towed in Normal. The City Council voted Monday to raise the towing fee from $50 to $85 for "nonvoluntary" tows from public or private property. In addition, there will be a $25 fee if a dolly is needed to move a four-wheel-drive vehicle, a $10 processing fee and an increase in storage fees from $5 per day to $12 per day. However, if you're a little short on cash, towing companies now will accept a debit or credit card. The council originally considered the changes July 5 at the prompting of Joe's To…
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HAMMOND, Ind. — Several cars were stolen off an auction lot in Hammond early Monday morning. Just before the heist, surveillance footage showed a tow truck drive down Detroit Road near Hohman in Hammond. A short time later, six vehicles were loaded up and stolen from an auction lot in the 6100 block of South Hohman. The non-profit Excite Labs owns the cars and were getting ready to auction them off. Employee Antonio Alvarez said all six were stolen within an hour just after 5 a.m. “We lost about six cars ranging from on the retail about $120k in valuation, on the wholesale value about $80k we’re estimating,” Alvarez said. …
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ITWA annual meeting and Christmas party is tomorrow at Fair Oaks Farm. We have 4 great presentations during the day on Saturday. You can come just for the seminars or feel free to spend the evening with us as well. If you have questions about BMV abandoned vehicle processing or NMVITIS Reporting, DOT questions, thinking about retirement or want more information on proper procedures for handling electric vehicles this is your chance to get the information you need. Please plan to join us!
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T&A Hook-In Supply, Inc. stepped it up this weekend with our own personal tattoo artist in our booth! Big shout out to a close family friend Scott Hill for joining me this weekend and leaving our mark on Indiana literally! Looks like this will be apart of every show we go too! SURPRISE!!!!
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INDIANAPOLIS — It was just before dawn on Monday, March 9, 1994, when a wrecker driver noticed he hadn’t been able to reach dispatcher John Garner at Hix Towing on Bluff Road. When the driver went to investigate, he found Garner dead behind his desk with a bullet wound to the head. “I think he got assassinated,” said IMPD Cold Case Detective Greg West. “Whoever killed him, there’s no doubt in my mind that he knew the person who killed him. The way he was shot and how he was shot, it’s from the crime scene we can tell that person who shot John, he knew them.” Misty Villaverde describes her uncle as a “big teddy bear” with a heart of gold…
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Second crash happens at site of three-vehicle rollover accident. A pickup truck slammed into the back of a tow truck that was at the scene of a rollover accident on N. St. Joseph Ave. (Evansville, IN)
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Crash kills one on Evansville's south side: EPD EVANSVILLE, Ind. — A crash on the South Side of Evansville Wednesday afternoon has claimed one life, police said. According to Evansville Police Department Sgt. John McQuay, the crash happened near the intersection of Garvin Street and Chandler Avenue around 4:25 p.m. and involved two vehicles. A pickup truck was driving north on Garvin and hit a flatbed tow truck parked on the left side of the road. The pickup truck struck the tow truck in the right rear corner of the flatbed, McQuay said. An extrication unit was called to the scene for what was originally believed to be a crash with injuries but …
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TOPIC FROM 2017: INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- A Saturday night shooting leaves one man dead on the south side, at the Capital Place Apartments. Police on the scene say the victim is a 47-year-old tow truck driver. When they first arrived to the 4000 block of Continental Court, at around 11 p.m., they found the man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. The man was lying on the ground next to the tow truck and car meant to be towed. He was pronounced dead at the scene by medics. At this time, police are still trying to determine the circumstances leading up to this incident. "It is unknown at this time whether this incident escalated from the job he w…
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Woman accidentally shot herself in leg, state police say A woman is expected to survive after accidentally shooting herself in the left leg in a car pulled off the Indiana Toll Road with a flat tire, the state police said. Teylor Shi Ann Anderson, 20, of South Bend, was transported to Porter County Regional Hospital, then transferred to South Bend Memorial Hospital, police said in a release. Probationary Trooper Luis Alvarez had called a tow truck around 2 a.m. on Sept. 29 for a green Toyota Camry pulled off near the Indiana 49 exit for Chesterton/Valparaiso in Porter County. As the tow truc…
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A man drowned early Sunday trying to tow his car from a retention pond on the northeast side. The 34-year-old victim had called a tow truck to the pond at on the 4000 block of Pendleton Way about 4:30 a.m. to help him get the car out of the pond, according to a news release from the Indianapolis Fire Department. The car was submerged in about 10 feet of water. The victim and the tow truck driver entered the pond to hook the car to the tow truck, said IFD Capt. Rita Reith in a news release. The driver told fire officials that the man began flailing about once in the water, almost pulling the driver underneath. The driver…
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*OFFICIAL RELEASE* Crothersville Police Officer Seriously Hurt in I-65 Crash This morning, August 14th, 2020, the Indiana State Police responded to a two vehicle crash on I-65 in Jackson County that resulted in a Crothersville Police Officer being sent to an Indianapolis hospital with serious injuries. The initial investigation by the Indiana State Police-Versailles Crash Investigation Response Team indicated two Crothersville Police Officers were providing traffic control for a highway maintenance crew that was working on I-65. Shortly before 6:00 am, the two officers had pulled onto I-65 Northbound near the 44 mile marke…
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On Friday morning, Dean Kesler will get up early, put on his work uniform — dark blue pants and shirt with his name above the pocket — and take on the day. As owner of his own service center for the last 62-plus years, Dean’s day has always started like that. But on Friday, it will be different. He will stay home. He may chop some firewood or practice his golf swing. He won’t open up Dean’s at the corner of Indiana 23 and Mayflower Road — just a block and a half from where he and his wife Peg live. He is finally hanging up his wrench. But his uniform? “I’m thinking I will wear it for a week or so around the house after I retire,” D…
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SOUTH BEND — The city Board of Public Works on Tuesday granted a second three-month extension to the contractor handling police towing to give the city more time to consider bids from four companies seeking a share of the work. ASAP Towing & Recovery, which has been the exclusive provider of towing services for the South Bend Police Department since 2016, will continue through July under the extension granted Tuesday morning. The city decided to seek new bids for the police towing work after reporting by The Tribune last fall raised questions about the city’s handling of the exclusive contract. In December, the Board of Public Works extend…
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LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — A northwestern Indiana woman has been sentenced to seven years in prison for a hit-and-run crash that killed two people who had met a tow truck driver along a road before sunrise on a foggy morning. Yariel Butler, 20 was also sentenced Thursday to one year of probation. A jury had convicted the Lafayette woman in February of two counts of leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death and one count of leaving an accident resulting in injury. The August 2018 crash killed Kimberly McDole and Eric Peacock and injured tow truck driver Robert Carley. Tippecanoe County prosecutors said that hours before the crash, …
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Bloomington City Council Passes Towing Ordinance Amid Tow Company Concerns A new Bloomington ordinance seeks to limit predatory towing, but some towing companies say it targets them. The ordinance called “non-consensual towing business” passed unanimously at Wednesday night’s city council meeting. It was the third hearing after contentious debate. City council president Steve Volan says the ordinance isn’t meant to accuse towing companies of being predatory. "The point of the ordinance is to rein in potential predatory towing whether or not it’s actually happening and I think that certainly that was our consensus at our firs…
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LAFAYETTE — Skid marks a few yards from the back of Robert Carley's tow truck hinted at the first time then 18-year-old Yariel Butler noticed the stopped wrecker in her path, according to testimony Tuesday morning. Butler, now 20 years old, is charged with two counts of leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death and one count of leaving the scene of an accident resulting in injury. She admitted to police she was the driver who struck Kimberly Massey McDole, William Eric Peacock and tow truck driver Robert Carley about 4:30 a.m. Aug. 1, 2018, according to opening statements on Monday. Butler's statements to police after her arre…
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Martinsville tow truck driver continues to cheat death, blames intersection for recent events MARTINSVILLE, Ind. — A Martinsville tow truck driver continues to cheat death, and this time he’s blaming a difficult intersection for his troubles. We first told you about Brian Wagaman in late December. A car spun out of control while he was on scene at a crash, and it likely would have killed him if he stepped out. “I would probably say about five or six serious times,” Wagaman said of his extra lives. On Monday, a car was heading the wrong-way down highway 67 near Centerton Road in Martinsville. The driver nearly collided head-on with …
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Tow truck company pushes for better understanding of Slow Down/Move Over law in Indiana INDIANAPOLIS — Every year, people are killed while responding to help others during emergencies and some workers feel people aren't following the laws. Being a tow truck driver is one of the most dangers jobs in America because data shows one tow truck driver is killed every six days. "It's tough for kids nowadays to want to come and apply," Matthew Bartlett with Interstate Delaware & South Towing said. "Most 20-year-olds don't want to be out here doing what we do on the side of the road. Chances are if somebody gets struck out h…
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James N Hall, 54, IN, 12.17.03 Hall was loading a disabled pickup truck onto a flatbed wrecker on the northbound emergency lane of I-69, while the pickup truck's owner sat in a C-35 Chevrolet Dually behind it. A GMC van pulling a U-Haul trailer, was reported to be moving at 70 mph, left the roadway and drove into the back of the C-35 and forced the vehicles into one another killing Hall instantly. He worked for Gold Star Wrecker. http://towersmemorial.info/memorial.htm
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Taking a picture saves Martinsville tow truck driver from possible death MARTINSVILLE, Ind. -- A quick photo may be the reason a Morgan County tow truck driver is still on the roads helping people. Brian Wagaman was having a busy night during this week's snowstorm, but there is one call he may never forget. It happened on Highway 67 just outside of Centerton. Wagaman stopped to tow a vehicle out of a deep spin-off accident. Before getting out of the truck to help, he took a picture of the accident with his phone. He says he doesn't normally take pictures of accidents, but due to the nature of the spin-off, he took one for damage liability purposes.…
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SOUTH BEND — For the first time in more than three years, the city of South Bend will seek bids for a contract to handle police towing — a move that comes after The Tribune reported on questions about how the city has handled an exclusive deal with one company. A Tribune story last month traced how the city awarded the exclusive contract three years ago to ASAP Towing & Recovery — the lone bidder — despite other firms’ objections about the fairness of the bidding process. The other companies said they did not know of the city’s plans to abandon an on-call rotation and seek a lone contractor. ASAP, meanwhile, had expanded its capabilities with a larger prop…
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Two South Bend men arrested for holding man at gunpoint, possession of meth SOUTH BEND — Two South Bend men are facing felony charges following an argument with a tow truck operator that police say resulted in one man pulling out a gun and threatening the operator’s life. Timothy Vivian, 50, is charged with intimidation involving a deadly weapon — a Level 5 felony — and pointing a firearm at another — a Level 6 felony. Michael Querry, 48, has been charged with a Level 6 felony in connection to the incident for possession of methamphetamine. On Thursday, South Bend police were dispatched to the 700 block of Blaine Avenue after receiving …
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Child killed, 4 others fighting for their lives after van, tow truck crash A child was killed and four other people were critically injured Sunday afternoon in a crash at the intersection of O'Day and Washington Center roads. Allen County sheriff's deputies were called to the area around 1 p.m. and found a tow truck had been traveling east on Washington Center when it struck a van carrying six people. The van had been traveling south on O'Day, according to a news release. The child in the van was ejected from the vehicle, and three others in the van were taken to the hospital in critical condition. Two others in the van also were treat…
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Hi All ... If you haven't seen it yet, three-hours ago, a Lincoln SUV has driven through a containment wall of an Indianapolis parking garage and fell four-floors to the alleyway below. The mishap resulted in a double fatality that's being called and accident. There's raw footage of the recovery with lots and lots of fire personnel on-scene. https://www.wthr.com/article/2-dead-after-car-falls-parking-garage-downtown At the end of the video(1:30), you'll see a flatbed carrier working the rollover. I'm only mentioning this due to the recent forum conversation that carrier's are considered recovery trucks. So, if carrie…
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VIDEO PENDING: Photo by: WTFD INDIANAPOLIS — Part of I-465 was closed Friday afternoon near 10th Street after a crane fell off of a tow truck. The Wayne Township Fire Department says the tow truck was traveling on 10th Street when the crane fell off and rolled down an embankment, hitting a vehicle before it landed on I-465. The person inside the vehicle was checked at the scene but did not suffer serious injuries. …
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TowForce is continuing the efforts to de fragment the towing & recovery industry. Where Towing Related News hides TowForce will work to bring it all together in one place. If you see Towing Industry News please post it. If your State Association is holding an event please post it. Not everyone in fact very few are on all forms of Social Media. TowForce is working to be the center of the industry much like Tow411 was at one time. Forum Presentations: The Department of Revenue spent three Representatives: Stephanie Bailey, Randal Boone and Jay Erickson. Jay and Stephanie talked about Oversize Weight Permits. Bill Giorgis presenti…
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Woman killed in crash with flatbed tow truck on Indy’s east side. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – A woman is dead after a crash involving a flatbed tow truck on the east side of Indianapolis. The crash occurred just after 6 a.m. at the intersection of 30th Street and Ritter Avenue. The woman driver had to be cut out of the car, and medics transported her to Eskenazi Hospital. She was later pronounced dead. The intersection will be partially blocked for at least the next hour. We will update this story when we have more information. RESOURCE LINK
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Man and woman arrested following shots fired at tow truck driver, police say MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A man and a woman woke up behind bars after police said they fired shots at a tow truck driver as he repossessed a car. Anjerracle Jones and Terrion Gibson are charged with Aggravated Assault. Police said they approached the tow truck driver in the 800 block of Olympic Street as he took a car away. RESOURCE LINK
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