Officials release identity of driver who died in Waterworks Road wreck

EVANSVILLE — A driver died Wednesday after crashing a truck along a farmland-ensconced stretch of Waterworks Road in Vanderburgh County.

First responders rushed to the scene of the apparent accident at 3:10 p.m., an Evansville-Vanderburgh Central Dispatch supervisor told the Courier & Press.

The driver of the truck, identified by the county coroner's office as 67-year-old Gregory Scott Bumm of Owensboro, Kentucky, was taken to Deaconess Midtown Hospital and later pronounced dead.

The incident occurred near Waterworks Road’s intersection with U.S. 41, according to dispatchers.

Video footage taken at the scene showed the pickup truck left one of Waterworks Road’s two lanes and went into a nearby pasture before coming to a halt on its side.

“It does appear that the vehicle went off of the road and the driver was ejected,” said Scott Roberts, of the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office.

Houston Harwood can be contacted at houston.harwood@courierpress.com .

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