Drugs may have been a factor in the Friday night crash on I69 in Pike County that claimed three lives.
Indiana State Police, in an update, said the investigation is continuing but did confirm drug use could’ve contributed to the crash.
Around 9:30 p.m. Friday, a Chevy Tahoe, driven by Brian Paquette of Newport News, Virginia was driving north in the southbound lanes. A trooper was notified of the wrong way driver and caught up with him at the 48.5 mile marker.
Despite attempts by the police officer to get the driver’s attention, they drove head on into a 2014 Ford Focus driven by Stephanie Molinet of Elberfeld. The Focus was then hit by a third vehicle, a GMC Terrain, driven by Jason Lowe of Fishers, Indiana.
Lowe was killed while his passenger, 46-year-old Samantha Lowe was injured. Moilnet was also killed, along with her passenger, 22-year-old Autumn Kapperman who was five months pregnant. The wrong way driver, 48-year-old Brian Paquette, was treated at Deaconess Hospital for nonlife-threatening injuries.
