MILLERSBURG – At 6:47 p.m. Monday, near Goshen, a 2005 Jeep Liberty, driven by an unknown driver, struck a mo-ped driven by a Nappanee man and killed him. Jeremy Yates, 20, Nappanee, was ejected and pronounced dead at CR 50 east of CR 35, near Goshen. According to the Elkhart County Sheriff’s Department report, the Jeep passed a non-motorized horse-drawn vehicle and collided head on with the mo-ped. The Jeep suffered extensive damage to the entire vehicle. Melissa Yoder, 28, Ligonier, a passenger in the Jeep, complained of back pain. William Perry, 20, Goshen, also a passenger in the Jeep, complained of major laceration to the head and an unknown head injury. The third passenger in the jeep, Randall Purtell, 20, Milford, complained of an unknown head injury and a back injury. All of the passengers were airlifted to an unknown hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
