A man on a bicycle died over the weekend after riding around flood barricades and falling into a collapsed road in Henry County, near the intersection of Riley Road and Crescent Drive.
According to the New Castle Mayor’s Office, 31-year-old James Briar of New Castle fell into a hole created by a road collapse. Briar was found dead shortly before 3:45 a.m. Sunday.
The Henry County Coroner’s Office confirmed Briar rode past high-water barricades before crashing into the washed-out section of the road. Flooding damaged the roadway last week.
Briar’s death brings Indiana’s total weather-related death toll to seven since severe storms began moving through the state last week.
Floodwaters in Delaware County claimed two people and a dog over the weekend. Emergency responders found a woman and her dog dead inside a vehicle surrounded by floodwaters in Yorktown on Friday, and search crews recovered the body of 18-year-old Matthew Morey from the Mississinewa River on Saturday.
Original reporting: 93.1 WIBC (Indianapolis) — read the source article.
