{"id":147316,"date":"2026-08-17T14:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T14:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/147316\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T14:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T14:32:10","slug":"one-dead-in-sunday-night-accident-involving-three-trucks-on-us-30-in-pierceton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/147316\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead in Sunday night accident involving three trucks on US 30 in Pierceton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/000-three-semis-sky.png\" data-caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"370\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/000-three-semis-sky.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"000 three semis sky\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nNews Release<\/p>\n<p>A PIERCETON \u2014 A Sunday night crash on US 30 in Pierceton involving three trucks has left one person dead.<\/p>\n<p>The accident happened at 8:16 p.m., according to a news release byKosciusko County Sheriff\u2019s Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A preliminary investigation determined that two of the westbound semis were stopped on US 30 at the intersection of State Road 13 when a third semi struck the rear of one and continued forward, then struck the other before coming to rest, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Richard L. Bacorn, 65, Orland Park, Ill., was driving the third vehicle that rear-ended the first. He was pronounced deceased by the Kosciusko County Coroner\u2019s Office from injuries sustained in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The other drivers, Christopher Lee, 47, Fort Wayne, and John A. Lamourine, 41, Zanesville, Ohio, escaped injury.<\/p>\n<p>The crash remains under investigation by the Kosciusko County FACT Team.<\/p>\n<p>The Kosciusko County Sheriff\u2019s Office was assisted at the scene by the Kosciusko County 911 Dispatch, Kosciusko County Coroner\u2019s Office, North Webster PD, Winona Lake PD, Warsaw- Wayne Fire Territory, Washington Township Fire Department, Lutheran EMS, and Reichert &amp; Knepp Towing.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News Release A PIERCETON \u2014 A Sunday night crash on US 30 in Pierceton involving three trucks has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[95],"tags":[11957,58791,26728,27140,68917,70041,182,70042,11955,181],"class_list":["post-147316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-warsaw","tag-crash","tag-fatal","tag-kosciusko-county","tag-kosciusko-county-sheriffs-office","tag-one-dead","tag-pierceton","tag-poland","tag-sunday-night","tag-us-30","tag-warsaw"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117111341043178811","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}