Driver pronounced dead, passenger injured following crash with pole

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- The South Bend Police Department reports officers responded to a single-vehicle crash Tuesday just after 12:30 p.m. in the 3300 block of Portage Road.

Upon arrival, police found a vehicle had crashed head-on into a pole.

Officers were told the driver, identified as a man in his 80s, appeared to have had a medical episode before going off road.

The driver was pronounced dead at the scene while the passenger was taken to the hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.