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Coroner identifies man killed in head-on collision in Huntington County – WOWO News/Talk 92.3 FM, 1190 AM, 107.5 FM & 97.3 HD2


HUNTINGTON COUNTY, Ind. (WOWO) – The Huntington County Coroner has identified the man killed in a head-on collision Thursday morning.

Jordan Collins, 27, of Huntington, was identified as the deceased passenger of a Honda Accord that was traveling northbound on State Road 9 in Wayne Township when, for unknown reasons, he crossed the center line and entered the path of a southbound Chevrolet Equinox.

The Accord hit the equinox. 55-year-old Kyle Collins, Jordan’s father, was freed and flown by helicopter to a hospital in Fort Wayne.

The driver of the Equinox, Ashlee Russell, 28, of Jonesboro, Indiana, was also taken to a local hospital.

Collins’ cause of death is multiple blunt force trauma from the car crash. The Huntington County Medical Examiner has ruled his death an accident.

Neither of the two men in the Accord were wearing seat belts.