The Associated Press
COAL CITY, Ind. — A volunteer firefighter died in a car crash Monday while on her way to the department’s station for a fire call, the state fire marshal said.
The firefighter was identified as Dennise M. Leslie, 37, of Freedom.
She was going to get an engine from the Coal City Fire Department to respond to a brush fire when she was killed in a single-car accident about 5 p.m., Fire Marshal Roger Johnson said.
Leslie lost control of her pickup truck as she swerved to avoid a collision with an oncoming vehicle, the Owen County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. Her truck rolled and struck a tree.
The crash occurred on a rural road about 30 miles west of Bloomington. It was later reported Leslie was not wearing a seat belt.