Thursday October 31st, 2024 8:52PM

Lost 87-year-old Cornelia man found in Indiana

By The Associated Press
LYNNVILLE, Ind. (AP) Police say an 87-year-old man stopped for driving nearly 100 mph on a southern Indiana highway believed he was in Georgia where family members had been looking for him. <br /> <br /> Indiana State Police Sgt. Todd Ringle says a trooper stopped the man's pickup truck Tuesday morning after spotting it traveling 98 mph on Interstate 64 near the town of Lynnville, about 20 miles northeast of Evansville. <br /> <br /> Ringle says the trooper immediately noticed the man from Cornelia, Georgia, was confused. The trooper was able to obtain a telephone number for a family member and found out relatives had been searching for him all night. <br /> <br /> Ringle says the man was taken to a nearby hospital for observation and that relatives from Georgia were coming to pick him up.
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