WARSAW — A 69-year-old motorist from Rochester was struck and killed Monday night on US 30 after he exited his vehicle to retrieve an item that had fallen from the bed of his truck.

The accident happened around 6:29 p.m. along the westbound lanes of US near the Meijer store in Warsaw.

The preliminary results of the investigation indicate that Randy Williams had parked on the shoulder and was not on the travel portion of the highway when the accident happened.

Williams was struck by a Kenworth tractor-trailer driven by Amrinder Singh, of Milwaukee.

Kosciusko County Coroner Tyler Huffer determined Williams’ cause of death to be blunt force trauma.

The Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Office Fatal Team was requested for reconstruction. A commercial motor vehicle inspection was conducted by the Indiana State Police.

No other details were available.

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