Hoosier Hills suffers damages after truck driver crashes into warehouse

WFIU | By Katy Szpak

Published April 22, 2024 at 6:26 PM EDT

A truck driver crashed into the Hoosier Hills Food Bank on Sunday.

Hoosier Hills Food Bank is boarding up its Dan Taylor Annex warehouse Monday after a truck driver crashed into the building.

truck crashed into Hoosier Hills Food Bank 4/21/24 — A photo of the structural damage after a truck driver drove into the Hoosier Hills Food Bank on April 21, 2024. (Courtesy Hoosier Hills Food Bank)

The truck driver drove off I-69 Sunday afternoon. In a Facebook post, Hoosier Hills said no serious injuries were reported.

emergency workers at the scene of a truck crashed into Hoosier Hills Food Bank 4/22/24 — Emergency workers assess the scene after a truck driver drove into the Hoosier Hills Food Bank on April 21, 2024. (Courtesy Hoosier Hills Food Bank)

Julio Alonso, Hoosier Hills executive director and CEO, said the biggest impact may be on food drive collection efforts.

“We had about 60,000 postcards that for the last three months we've been putting together,” he said. “A lot of those were destroyed because they went right through the crates of those.”

damaged postcards from truck crashed into Hoosier Hills Food Bank 4/21/24 — The postcards Hoosier Hills had planned to send out to Monroe County residents. (Courtesy Hoosier Hills Food Bank)

The postcards notify county residents to leave bags or boxes of non-perishables bags for pick up on May 11.

“I think the worst impact could come if we've lost a lot of those postcards and don't have a way to notify people about the Stamp Out hunger food drive,” he said. “That could impact that event, which is our biggest food drive of the year. We really count on that for 40 to 50,000 pounds of food.”

Alonso said the staff is assessing the full extent of the damage, but that families and agencies will only be minimally affected.