Naked Truth About Driver Multitasking

Nov. 14, 2003
An Ohio truck driver who put his vehicle on cruise control at 60 miles per hour so he could change his clothes misjudged a curve and crashed into two fences on an Indiana highway. A witness told investigators she found the driver, 59-year old Terry Gilmore, naked when she went to check on him right after the accident on U.S. Rte. 6. No charges were filed, and Gilmore was taken to LaPorte Hospital
An Ohio truck driver who put his vehicle on cruise control at 60 miles per hour so he could change his clothes misjudged a curve and crashed into two fences on an Indiana highway.

A witness told investigators she found the driver, 59-year old Terry Gilmore, naked when she went to check on him right after the accident on U.S. Rte. 6. No charges were filed, and Gilmore was taken to LaPorte Hospital as a precaution, police said.

The crash caused officers to close a portion of the road for more than three hours.

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