Its Better To Walk To Ozzfest, Some May Think

After a series of likely circumstantial, but nevertheless gruesomely interesting events, we may be led to believe that driving to or from Ozzfest is not the best choice. It doesn't matter how much you drink, fate seems to catch up with some metalheads.

IndyStar.com reports that an Illinois man died Tuesday night while walking outside the Verizon Wireless Music Center in Indianapolis, Indiana after the Ozzfest concert.

Danne D. Buchanan, 41, of Fisher, Ill., was walking south on Boden Road just north of 156th Street about 11:30 p.m. when he was struck by a 1993 Ford F-150 truck driven by Jerry R. Cook, 50, of Oakland City, Ind.

Hamilton County Sheriff Maj. Mark Bowen said in a press release that Cook was driving south on Boden Road on his way to the amphitheater to pick up a family member at the free concert, which 18,467 people attended.

Cook stated that he did not see either Buchanan or David Wall, also of Fisher, because the men who were walking together wore dark clothing. Cook also told officers that he was blinded by the headlights from the full lane of northbound traffic on Boden Road.Cook's truck struck Buchanan causing severe head and internal injuries, Bowen said. Buchanan was pronounced dead at the scene.

Bowen said neither alcohol nor drugs are suspected as being a contributing factor to the accident. However, the Crash Investigation Team continues to investigate the incident.

In similar news, according to Post-Tribune, a 15-year-old Indiana girl died Friday night (August 10) in a car crash while travelling to the Ozzfest music festival in Tinley Park, Illinois.

Rachel Hunley, 15, was killed just a few blocks away from her family household. Her older sister was driving at the time.

Tiffany Hunley, 26, of Hebron struck a utility pole shortly before 6:15 p.m., while driving a 2004 Chevrolet Trailblazer in the 12300 block of Cline Avenue. Hunley told police she was starting to veer off the road and then overcorrected.

Rachel is the second of five Hunley children to die in an accident. The Hunleys' oldest child, Tina Marie Dreiling, was killed in a fire at her East Chicago apartment in September 2001.