A Grand Jury convened last week in Marshall County and returned an indictment in four counts against 29-year-old Inderjit Singh Sidhu in an accident that occurred August 24, 2021 on U.S. 30 just west of the railroad crossing between Pioneer Drive and Oak Drive in Plymouth.
Sidhu faces two counts of reckless homicide and two traffic infractions, according to Marshall County Prosecutor Nelson Chipman.
The report states, “Sidhu did recklessly kill John Paul David Eckel by operating a truck in plain, conscious, and unjustifiable disregard of harm that might result and the disregard involves a substantial deviation from acceptable standards of conduct.” The same was said of the death of Patric John McGlynn.
The pair was in a passenger vehicle and slowing to the tanker truck ahead of them when Sidhu’s semi tractor trailer rear-ended the car which pushed the vehicle into the back of a tanker truck, according to the report. A fire erupted at the scene. Eckel and McGlynn died as a result of multiple blunt force trauma and extensive thermal burns. Neither alcohol nor drugs were detected for any driver in the crash.
The area was designated as a construction zone at the time of the accident.
Chipman said the two infractions relate to an allegation of speed greater than reasonable under conditions and following too closely.
An initial hearing for Sidhu is scheduled for Tuesday, October 4 at 8:30 a.m. in Marshall Superior Court 1.
Suspects are presumed innocent unless or until proven guilty in a court of law.
