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Last updated on Wednesday, July 25, 2018
(HENRYVILLE) - Monday at approximately 5:55 p.m., troopers from the Indiana State Police Post at Sellersburg responded to a crash involving a semi-tractor and trailer on Interstate 65 South at the 19 Mile Marker, near Henryville.
When officers arrived they found the semi-tractor and trailer fully engulfed in fire with the driver trapped inside. The Monroe Township Volunteer Fire Department was on the scene and extinguished the vehicle and trailer fire.
An autopsy was completed today in Clark County on the driver.
He was identified as 60-year-old Charles W. Pilcher, from Mount Morris, IL. The autopsy was unable to determine a cause of death. Toxicology test results from the autopsy are pending.
The preliminary investigation revealed for an unknown reason why Pilcher left the roadway on the West side of the road. The semi-tractor and trailer then struck a tree and caught fire.
It is still unknown if the Pilcher died before, during or after the crash.
The semi was a 2012 Freightliner hauling a load of dairy products.
This investigation is continuing.
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