An accident in western Kosciusko County left one man dead and two other people injured.

The crash happened around three on Tuesday afternoon.

Police tell us that drivers in two cars were going the same direction on old U.S. 30, just west of Atwood, near Hoffman Lake. They say the drivers of those cars did know each other.

One car successfully passed a mail truck. The second driver tried to pass too, but went off the road and then overcorrected. That is when the second car hit an oncoming truck.

The truck’s driver was pronounced dead at the scene. The two injured people were airlifted to a South Bend hospital where one is in severe and one in critical condition.