INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A 77-year-old Bluffton man died early Wednesday after the SUV he was in went airborne and flipped several times before landing in a ditch along I-69 in Huntington County.

Richard Elston was driving eastbound on County Road 200 North around 12:45 a.m. when he reached a dead end facing I-69 and “failed to realize the road had ended,” the Huntington County Sheriff’s Office said in a release.

The initial investigation found that Elston’s SUV went through the grass and crashed through an INDOT construction fence before going airborne. The SUV hit the edge of a southbound lane of I-69 and went airborne again, striking a top barrier cable, which caused the vehicle to “roll front to rear sever...