WARSAW, Ind. (WNDU) – A Rochester man was killed Monday night after being hit by a semi-truck while trying to retrieve cargo that had fallen from his pickup truck on U.S. 30 in Warsaw.<\/p>\n
The crash happened just before 6:30 p.m. in the westbound lanes of U.S. 30 at Meijer Drive, according to our reporting partners at the Times-Union<\/a>.<\/p>\n Police said 69-year-old Randy Williams of Rochester was outside his Ford F-150 retrieving and securing cargo that had fallen from the bed of his pickup truck when he was hit by a Kenworth T680 tractor-trailer.<\/p>\n According to police, Williams\u2019 truck was parked on the shoulder and was not on the travel portion of U.S. 30 when the crash happened. The tractor-trailer was driven by a 30-year-old Wisconsin man.<\/p>\n The Kosciusko County coroner determined Williams\u2019 cause of death to be blunt force trauma.<\/p>\n The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n Stay up to date on local news with WNDU<\/a> on-air and online. Be sure to download the 16 News Now App<\/a> and follow our YouTube<\/a> page as we continue to bring you the latest coverage on this developing story.<\/p>\n Copyright 2026 WNDU. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WARSAW, Ind. (WNDU) – A Rochester man was killed Monday night after being hit by a semi-truck while…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[95],"tags":[6163,11957,11951,11952,6951,182,11956,11954,9323,11953,11955,181,2663],"class_list":["post-16480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-warsaw","tag-cargo","tag-crash","tag-hit","tag-killed","tag-man","tag-poland","tag-randy-williams","tag-retrieving","tag-rochester","tag-semi","tag-us-30","tag-warsaw","tag-wndu"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16480","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=16480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}