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Cowan boys basketball coach Lee Ingles dies in car crash Monday evening

MUNCIE, Ind. — Cowan boys basketball coach and physical education teacher Lee Ingles died in a car crash Monday afternoon.

According to Indiana State Police, Ingles was traveling southbound in his Jeep on Interstate 69 in Madison County around 3:43 p.m. when a Toyota sedan, traveling north, drove into the median, went through the dividing cable barrier and collided nearly head-on with Ingles' vehicle.

Ingles' Jeep veered off the road where bystanders found him unresponsive and pulled him from the burning vehicle. Emergency personnel were unable to resuscitate him and Ingles was pronounced at the scene. He was 50 years old.