Information from ISP Pendleton District Public Information Officer Sgt. John Bowling
Henry County – A single-vehicle crash in Henry County Thursday night, July 30, claimed the life of a 31-year-old Shirley man. Henry County Sheriff’s Department deputies and Indiana State Police troopers were called to the 6500 block of Grant City Road, just north of Indiana 109, a little before 10:30 p.m., for a report of a single-vehicle rollover crash with serious injuries.
ISP Trooper Thomas Ratliff and HCSD deputies arrived to find a 2007 Chevrolet Impala on its top partially in the ditch on the right (east) side of Grant City Road. just south of the Interstate-70 overpass. The preliminary investigation by ISP Trooper Thomas Ratliff indicates the Impala, driven by Jason Bridgeman, 31, of Shirley, Indiana, was northbound on Grant City Road when the driver lost control as the vehicle went over a slight rise in the road.
The vehicle began to rotate and left the right side of the road where it went into the ditch and rolled over. Bridgeman, who was not wearing a safety belt, succumbed to his injuries at the scene. The cause of the crash remains under investigation; however, investigators do believe speed played a role in the crash.
ISP Trooper Ratliff was assisted at the scene by Indiana State Police Crash Reconstruction Investigators Trooper Mark Hanna and Master Trooper Coley McCutcheon; by the Henry County Sheriff’s Department, Knightstown – Wayne Township Fire and Henry County EMS.