Runaway pig causes fatal head-on collision near Logansport

Police say a runaway pig caused a double fatal car crash in Cass County around 7:30 p.m.

Thursday.

Double fatal car crash in cass county at about seven-thirty last night.

News 18's joe paul visited the scene of the crash today.

He has more details on where police and a nearby homeowner suspect the pig came from.

< it's not the first time a pig has crossed into traffic here on state road 25 just north of logansport.

But this time, it ended up causing a fatal crash that killed two people.

"stay with me, they're on their way."

Sam edwards is a cass county homeowner and dialysis nurse.

She says she administered cpr to one of two men killed in a car crash thursday night.

"i wish i would have got there sooner, i wish i would have started cpr sooner, just things like that.

I pray for the families and i pray for everyone involved in the whole situation."

Sheriff ed schroder says 47-year-old jeremy aubrey of rural logansport was traveling south when he struck a large pig in the road and collided with 44-year-old shane saunders of lucerne, indiana.

"i have about 34 years in policing and this is the first time i've seen a crash of this magnitude involving a pig."

Both men had to be extricated from their vehicles and both eventually died from their injuries.

Edwards says a pig has gotten loose on multiple occasions from a neighbor's home with a small farm.

"the pig has been in the road before but usually he gets out of the way.

People have called and they just scoot him back into the fence and it's ok."

Sheriff ed schroder says police are also looking into the possibility the pig fell from a truck that hauls animals to a local processing facility.

"we don't have any information to confirm that yet, but we're trying to dig to the b to find out exactly where the pig came from."

Schroder says anyone with information is asked to call the cass county sheriff's office at 574-753-7800.

"we'll take any information someone may have and try to piece this together for the family so we can give them a full complete picture."

I stopped by the home with the small farm where this pig could have come from.

I knocked on the door to see if anyone was available to comment, but no one was home.

Reporting in logansport, joe paul, news 18.

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