INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana State Police say a member of the Columbus Police Department’s command staff had exited his vehicle and was standing on a ramp from I-70 to the Sam Jones Expressway Tuesday afternoon when he was struck by a pickup truck.
State police public information officer John Perrine said Steve Norman, deputy chief of police for the Columbus Police Department, got out of his personal vehicle on the ramp for an unknown reason when he was hit by the pickup.
Norman is listed in fair condition at Eskenazi Health in Indianapolis, hospital officials said.
The location is about three miles west of downtown Indianapolis, near the old Indianapolis airport.
The pickup driver stopped at the scene and it was determined he was not impaired in any way prior to the collision.
The Indiana State Police are doing a full reconstruction on the accident as part of the investigation, Perrine said.
Columbus police said Wednesday that Norman was off-duty and was not driving a CPD vehicle, and was not working in a law enforcement capacity, when the accident occurred.
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