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WHITLEY COUNTY – An Indiana State Police trooper from the Fort Wayne Post was asked to assist an ambulance crew Sunday morning as they were transporting an injured man from a race track in North Webster to Lutheran Hospital for injuries sustained in a crash while racing his four-wheeler.
At approximately 11:30 a.m., Master Trooper Joe McLaughlin met with the ambulance on U.S. 30 near the Whitley/Kosciusko county line and provided transportation for the injured man’s 8-year-old son and 9-year-old daughter so they would not have to watch as medics tended to their seriously injured father, according to a news release from the ISP. The name of the injured man and his children were not released.
McLaughlin was able to use his own parental experience to talk with the kids in “a compassionate way which made them feel more calm, comfortable and able to understand the situation more easily,” the release states. Contact with a family member was made, but it was going to be a couple of hours before she could pick the kids up, as she would have been coming from Michigan City.
