Indian American 42-yr-old man from Hoshiarpur killed in Indiana road crash

GREENWOOD, INDIANA (TIP): A 42-year-old Indian American man was killed and two others were seriously injured in a two-vehicle accident in rural Greenwood in Indiana last week.
Sukhwinder Singh, an Indianapolis resident who was driving a Honda Accord, veered into the opposite lane, colliding with a Cadillac Escalade last Thursday, October 12, according to local media reports.
Singh, who hails from Hoshiarpur district in Punjab, succumbed to his injuries on Friday at a local hospital. He is survived by his wife and two children, a 15-year-old son and a 10-year-old daughter. Singh had come to the United States at the age of 15 back in 1996 and had been living in Indianapolis since 2010.
Johnson County Sheriff’s deputies responded at approximately 7:02 pm Thursday to a car crash in the 700 block of North Five Points Road, approximately a half mile south of County Line Road in Pleasant Township, Daily Journal reported citing a police official.
Deputies and fire personnel located three injured subjects who were extricated and transported to Indianapolis hospitals with serious injuries. On Friday morning, the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office announced that the driver of one of the vehicles, Indianapolis resident Sukhwinder Singh, died from his injuries at Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital in Indianapolis. The condition of a couple in the other car is reported to be stable.
The driver of the second car told deputies they saw Singh driving north on Five Points Road when he lost control of his vehicle and swerved into the southbound lane where they were at. Singh’s car hit them head-on, according to a sheriff’s office report cited by the Journal.
Deputies say the speedometer on Singh’s vehicle was stuck at about 65 mph. Singh was the sole occupant of his vehicle. Their investigation also matched up with what the other driver said as to the chain of events and the cause of the accident, according to the report.