{"id":1590949,"date":"2022-08-05T12:01:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T16:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1590949"},"modified":"2022-08-05T12:01:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T16:01:41","slug":"more-details-reported-on-crash-that-killed-gop-rep-jackie-walorski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-details-reported-on-crash-that-killed-gop-rep-jackie-walorski\/","title":{"rendered":"More Details Reported on Crash That Killed GOP Rep. Jackie Walorski"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmore-details-reported-on-crash-that-killed-gop-rep-jackie-walorski%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1590949&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The vehicle that Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.) was traveling in on Aug. 3 crossed the center line of the road \u201cfor reasons that are unknown at this time,\u201d\u00a0causing a crash resulting in four deaths, including Walorski\u2019s, local authorities said, reversing a statement made a day prior about the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Initially on Aug. 3,\u00a0the Elkhart County <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-sheriff\">Sheriff<\/a>\u2019s Office said it was the other vehicle, driven by Edith Schmucker, that had crossed the center line and crashed head-on into the SUV occupied by Walorski, Emma Thomson, and Zachery Potts. Sheriff\u2019s officials said Potts, 27, was driving.<\/p>\n<p>But in an Aug. 4\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ecsonews\/posts\/pfbid02cM5mxBi16ZxpZvwSaTXk4LrhnptryrEhguMXj67mZNCEswx7raz48yigcSyWz67xl\">update<\/a>, the\u00a0Elkhart County Sheriff\u2019s Office stated that it \u201cobtained updated information\u201d regarding the crash and that previous information that it had provided \u201cas to the direction of travel of the vehicles was not correct.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe continuing investigation has located eyewitness and video evidence,\u201d sheriff\u2019s officials said. \u201cBoth confirm that the maroon Buick LeSabre driven by Edith Schmucker, 56, Nappanee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-indiana\">Indiana<\/a>, was southbound on SR 19 south of SR 119 and the silver Toyota RAV 4, driven by Zachery Potts, 27, Mishawaka, Indiana, was northbound on SR 19.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The RAV 4 with Walorski, Potts, and Thomson \u201ccrossed the centerline for reasons that are unknown at this time\u201d before the two cars crashed, according to the office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll occupants of both vehicles were confirmed to have been wearing seatbelts and airbags did deploy,\u201d it stated.<\/p>\n<p>Interviews of witnesses and evidence collection are still ongoing at the scene of the crash, sheriff\u2019s officials said. Anyone with information or anyone who witnessed the accident is being asked to contact the Elkhart County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/p>\n<h2>More Details<\/h2>\n<p>Schmucker, Potts, and Thomson also died as a result of the crash. The Republican lawmaker\u2019s death was initially confirmed by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who said he obtained information from her husband, Dean, that she was killed in the incident on the afternoon of Aug. 3.<\/p>\n<p>Potts was a member of the St. Joseph County Republican Party, as well as the Indiana Republican State Committee. Thomson served as Walorski\u2019s communications director.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to her election in 2012 to the House, Walorski served three terms in the Indiana Legislature, spent four years as a missionary in Romania along with her husband, and worked as a television news reporter in South Bend, Indiana, according to a biography posted on her congressional website.<\/p>\n<p>Walorski was a lifelong resident of Indiana, according to her official biography. She served on the House Ways and Means Committee and was the top Republican on the subcommittee on worker and family support.<\/p>\n<p>Both Republicans and Democrats issued statements mourning her death, including President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).<\/p>\n<p>Biden, a Democrat, said he and Walorski \u201cmay have represented different parties and disagreed on many issues, but she was respected by members of both parties for her work on the House Ways and Means Committee on which she served.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Reuters contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-jack-phillips\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2019\/06\/13\/Jack-Phillips.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Phillips\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"names\">\n<p>Breaking News Reporter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter at The Epoch Times based in New York.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vehicle that Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.) was traveling in on Aug. 3 crossed the center line of the road \u201cfor reasons that are unknown at this time,\u201d\u00a0causing a crash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1444048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1590949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1590949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1444048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1590949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1590949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1590949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}