NORTH VERNON, Ind. — Indiana State Police discovered a crashed vehicle Tuesday that led to two missing persons.
Police responded to a report of an accident with injury on U.S. 50 near the Jennings-Ripley County line around 5 p.m. At the scene, officers found Nikki Reed, 37, of Seymour, and Kevin Bell, 39, of Dover, Pennsylvania. Reed was deceased and Bell was suffering from injuries to his lower extremities.
As the investigation continued, police established that Reed had recently traveled to Pennsylvania to pick-up her boyfriend and had not been heard from since Saturday, when Reed talked to her parents via telephone and told them the two were on their way back to the Seymour area.
Police determined that sometime Saturday afternoon, September 17, Bell drove off U.S. 50, down an embankment and hit a tree head-on, killing Reed instantly. Bell suffered leg injuries and was unable to crawl back to the road, and wasn’t discovered until three days later. Sgt. Stephen Wheeles, of the Indiana State Police , says the vehicle came to rest far from the road and was not visible.
Bell is being treated for non-life threatening injuries.