Car plunges from Indianapolis parking garage, killing 2

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Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019 5:57 p.m. | Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019 5:57 p.m.

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Indianapolis Fire Department personnel work the scene where a vehicle plummeted from an upper level of a parking garage in Indianapolis, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, landing inverted in the alley behind the City Market. Two fatalities were found in the vehicle. The incident is now under a death investigation.

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Indianapolis Fire Department officials works the scene where a vehicle plummeted from an upper level of a parking garage, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, landing inverted in the alley behind the City Market, in Indianapolis. Two fatalities were found in the vehicle. The incident is now under a death investigation.

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Indianapolis Fire Department officials work the scene where a vehicle plummeted from an upper level of a parking garage, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, landing inverted in the alley behind the City Market, in Indianapolis. Two fatalities were found in the vehicle. The incident is now under a death investigation.

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Indianapolis Fire Department officials work the scene where a vehicle plummeted from an upper level of a parking garage, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, landing inverted in the alley behind the City Market in Indianapolis. Two fatalities were found in the vehicle. The incident is now under a death investigation.

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A gaping opening is seen in a parking garage where a vehicle plummeted from an upper level, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, landing inverted in the alley behind the City Market. Two fatalities were found in the vehicle. The incident is now under a death investigation.

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Indianapolis Star

INDIANAPOLIS — Firefighters say a car plunged from the fourth floor of a downtown Indianapolis parking garage, killing a man and a woman inside.

The car landed on its roof after falling shortly before 10 a.m. Wednesday from the Market Square Center Garage. It plowed through a parking garage wall and landed in an alley behind the City Market.

Not what you ever want to cover. We've added drone footage and stills of this crash from the fourth floor of a Downtown Indianapolis parking garage. A scary, scary scene. https://t.co/wS23NI60Nd

— Joe Tamborello (@joetamborello) October 23, 2019

Fire Department Battalion Chief Rita Reith says the woman was driving. She and the man were pronounced dead at the scene. Their names haven’t been released. Reith says a second man who witnessed the crash was treated for possible shock.

Reith says code enforcement was called to check for structural damage to the garage.