By Liz Shepherd
InkFreeNews

SILVER LAKE — Two people from Wabash were airlifted to a Fort Wayne hospital after a two-vehicle accident in Silver Lake on Wednesday morning.

At 7:45 a.m. Wednesday, June 24, the Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a vehicle accident on East SR 14, near South CR 400E, Silver Lake.

A 2016 black Ford Fusion, operated by Grace L. Metzger, 20, Claypool, was traveling north on CR 400E when she stopped her vehicle at the stop sign at SR 14. A white 2018 Ram 1500, operated by Robert D. Reahard, 66, Wabash, was traveling east on SR 14.

According to police reports, Metzger did not see Reahard’s vehicle and entered his path of travel. Reahard’s vehicle struck the front of Metzger’s vehicle and overturned, coming to rest on its top.

Metzger was not injured in the accident. Reahard and a passenger in his vehicle, Julie A. Reahard, 63, Wabash, both complained of neck pain. The Reahards were both airlifted to Parkview Regional Medical Center in Fort Wayne.

Damages are estimated at up to $50,000.