IN Man Steve Miller ID’d As Victim In Thursday Night Mishawaka Fatal Motorcycle Collision

ST JOSEPH COUNTY, IN. (THECOUNT) — Steven Lee Miller, of Granger, Indiana, has been identified as the victim in a two-vehicle motorcycle collision in St. Joseph County Thursday night.

Miller, 52, was killed in a motorcycle crash involving a suspected impaired driver near Mishawaka Thursday night.

According to reports, Miller was operating a motorcycle on North Main Street near East Jefferson Boulevard in Mishawaka, when the bike came into contact with a Jeep, operated by 33-year-old Eric Joseph Wruble, of South Bend, around 9:5- p.m. Thursday.

Miller was transported to an area hospital where he was later pronounced dead of blunt force trauma injuries.

Wruble was taken into custody and booked into the St. Joseph County Jail on preliminary suspicion of Operating a Vehicle While Intoxicated Causing Death and Operating a Vehicle While Intoxicated.

The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

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Geo quick facts: St. Joseph County, commonly called St. Joe County by locals, is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of Census 2010, the population was 266,931, making it the fifth-most populous county in Indiana. Formed in 1830, it was named for the St. Joseph River which flows through it toward Lake Michigan – Wikipedia.