A Metamora man was killed while working in northern Indiana on a mowing crew yesterday morning.

Conservation officers from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources report that 55-year-old Charles D. Sizemore was mowing grass with a 15-foot mower on Interstate 65 north of the Crown Point exit at about 11:15 a.m. when he lost consciousness for unknown reasons. His tractor/mower went up an embankment then back down, hitting a guard rail. Sizemore was wearing a seatbelt but his face hit the steering wheel.

Sizemore was taken to South Lake Methodist Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Sizemore was part of a crew that was sub-contracted by the Indiana Department of Transportation for mowing roads in northwest Indiana.