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Postal worker dies in Fountaintown crash

FOUNTAINTOWN, Ind. (WISH) – A postal worker died after a single-vehicle crash in Fountaintown, an unincorporated community in Shelby County, on Sunday.

According to Indiana State Police, the crash happened along County Road 900 North and 200 West.

Police believe the female postal worker was out delivering mail in a postal truck when the vehicle went off the north side of the road for unknown reasons and over corrected. The vehicle then went off the south side of the road and overturned.

The woman was ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene. She was identified Monday morning as 45-year-old Melinda Thompson of Spiceland.

Police say it appears Thompson was not wearing a seat belt.