The Porter County Coroner’s Office has identified the woman who died Friday night after the pickup truck she was driving crashed and rolled over in a ditch in Pine Township.
Tia Elkins, 49, of Valparaiso, died from blunt force trauma and her death was ruled an accident, according to the coroner’s office.
Around 8:52 p.m. on July 26, the Porter County Sheriff’s Department received a report of a pickup truck that had crashed and rolled over in the area of US 20 and County Road 1400 North, police said.
An initial investigation and a witness statement show that a 2000 Nissan Frontier pickup
truck was east on US Highway 20 in the area of CR 1400 N when, for an unknown
reason, the pickup truck drove off the roadway, crashing and rolling over into a ditch, police said.
Elkins was pronounced deceased at the scene, police said.
