A 40-year-old Fort Wayne woman who was critically injured Sunday night when her car struck a tree has been identified.The Fort Wayne Police Department said that just before 8:30 p.m., Tammy J.Wabash County sheriff’s deputies are trying to determine whether foul play was involved in the death of a 36-year-old woman whom police tried to aid as her husband was trying to drive her to the hospital.
Lisa Pattison’s husband told police he came home from work about noon Thursday and discovered that his wife had an accident while exercising with a weight machine at their house in the 5500 block of East Wabash County Road 800 South, Sheriff Leroy Striker said.
He put her in his vehicle and was driving her to Marion General Hospital in Marion, about 12 miles away, when he called authorities. Grant County police and emergency responders intercepted him on Indiana 15 about six miles from his home. They gave Pattison first aid, but she was later pronounced dead, according to Striker.
“We’re hoping that it just happens to be a tragic accident,” he said. But investigators also had not ruled out foul play Thursday evening.
