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Phillip Epperly was arrested on a preliminary charge of criminal recklessness
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...y-house-fatal-car-accident.html#ixzz3HnRZ36wW[...]
man has been arrested after he failed to call police following a fatal car accident that killed his girlfriend.
Phillip Epperly, 49, from Tipton Indiana was arrested on a preliminary charge of criminal recklessness after the crash in rural Tipton
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Epperly admitted that he was the driver of the lone SUV involved in the accident which killed his girlfriend but police are also investigating his actions following the crash.
Epperly allegedly dragged the body of his girlfriend from their crashed 2004 Ford Explorer after he ran off the road and into a tree, fence post and utility pole.
He then took the body of Karla M. Wolford, 38, into the couple's home
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Tipton and laid Wolford's body in the living room before calling 911.
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police officers arrived on the scene they found Epperly drinking a beer.
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Tipton County Sheriff's Department first responded to the crash at approximately 10:49 p.m. Thursday, police said, before requesting State Police assistance.
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was driving eastbound on County Road 400 South, approaching a T-intersection at County Road 500 West, police said, when he failed to stop for a stop sign at County Road 500 West.
Instead, police said, he continued through the T-intersection.
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spokesperson for Indiana State Police said: 'The Explorer struck a fence post in a driveway at 3980 South County Road 500 West.'
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Explorer then veered off the driveway and hit a tree and a utility pole. The crash impact severed the utility pole.'
Wolford was pronounced dead once emergency responders arrived.
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only had minor injuries.
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the driver and the passenger were wearing seat belts at the time of the crash, according to police.
The investigation into the fatal car crash is ongoing and results from a toxicology test are pending.
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Her Fb
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Tipton man drove his SUV into a tree after drinking and then dragged his dead girlfriend into their home.
Phillip Epperly, 49, from Tipton was preliminarily charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated and reckless homicide.
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Deputies arrived at his home Thursday night, they found Epperly drinking a beer, while his girlfriend’s lifeless body lay on the living room floor.
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Epperly dragged the body of his girlfriend, Karla Wolford, 38, from the wrecked SUV into their home and then called 911.
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he was drunk when he barreled through the intersection of County Road 400 South and County Road 500 West in front of their house, through a fence, and into a tree and utility pole. Police believed the wreck killed Wolford almost instantly.
When first responders arrived, they performed CPR on Wolford. She was taken to the hospital last night where she was pronounced dead.
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hearts were hurting Friday.
Wolford worked for a year at a market there. Her friends and coworkers were shocked and saddened to learn of her death.
“I just broke out in a cold sweat, my heart just started pounding; 38 years old – yeah, she was a really good worker and a loving mother,” said Pam Stewart
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Friends say the mother of three had just really started to live her life.
“It kind of hit it home because I knew the lady,” said a friend of Wolford’s son.
“I used to help her in the middle school because she was a janitor there for a long time,”
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We asked Stewart what it was like when she learned of Wolford’s death, “I just broke out in a cold sweat, my heart just started pounding,”
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“She always was optimistic and happy and bubbly and loud,” said Lyndy Forsythe,
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“My heart goes out to them; it’d be really, really hard. I have a son, he’s getting ready to turn two in about three months so I can understand and it has to be heartbreaking to them,” she said of Wolford’s three children.
Police are still investigating exactly how Wolford died. All the answers are pending that investigation as well as a toxicology report.