Daywatch: Driver trapped in truck for 6 days, surviving on rain water
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Nivardo De La Torre and his father-in-law, Mario Garcia, have been fishing together for 13 years.
They sometimes head to the Kankakee River but Tuesday afternoon, they decided to stick closer to home and try a spot along Salt Creek.
“It was just chance,” said Garcia, 60, of Hobart. “We saw the glitter of the wreck.”
The glitter was Matthew R. Reum’s crashed pickup truck. Reum, 27, of Mishawaka, Indiana, had been trapped in the truck for six days when police said he went off the road and survived on rain water until he was rescued.
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