Batesville, IN—Late Saturday morning, the Indiana State Police and Ripley County Sheriff’s Office responded to a single-vehicle crash on Legion Road near Batesville that resulted in the death of a 17-year-old Batesville youth.
The initial investigation by Troopers indicated that a white 2003 Dodge Ram, being driven by Caleb W. D. Zapfe, age 16, Batesville was traveling westbound on Legion Road near County Road 200 East in Ripley County. For an unknown reason, the vehicle left the south side of the road. Zapfe overcorrected, causing the vehicle to leave the north side of the road before overturning.
Zapfe sustained non-life threatening injuries in the collision. A passenger in Zapfe’s vehicle, Kaleb G. Norton, age 17, Batesville, was ejected from the vehicle. Norton sustained fatal injuries in the crash. He was pronounced deceased at the scene by the Ripley County Coroner’s Office. Norton was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash.
The investigation is ongoing and toxicology results are pending at this time.
