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Last updated on Monday, November 10, 2014
(BOURBON) - Indiana State Police are looking for a man who drives a red Ford truck after he assaulted an Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) worker on Friday around 11:15 a.m.
The INDOT worker was in a truck at a construction site south of Bourbon, Indiana, which is about 60 miles northwest of Fort Wayne. While on his lunch break, the worker noticed a white man attempting to drive around the barricades blocking the road. When the worker thought the driver had driven over some equipment, he got out of his car.
According to the police report, the driver struck the worker with the side mirror of his truck. He then stopped the truck, got out, started yelling profanities and then punched him several times in the face.
The driver went back to his truck and left headed south on State Road 331.
The worker received multiple lacerations to his face. Police have not released his name.
Police describe the driver as a white man between the age of 40 to 50. is six feet tall and weighing approximately 250 pounds. He has short hair that is starting to gray. At the time of the incident he was wearing a flannel shirt and blue jeans. Police believe the man was driving a red, maroon or burgundy Ford Truck with a straight cab or possibly an extended cab.
Anyone with information on this incident is encouraged to call Indiana State Police Bremen Post or Trooper David Caswell at 574-564-4900.
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