Posts tagged motor vehicle accidents

• Eight Killed in Car Crash on Indiana Toll Road

  Christina Cole | April 26, 2007 7:50 PM | 0 CommentsBloomington, IN Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Eight people lost their lives on Thursday in a chain reaction car crash on the Indiana Toll Road, thirty miles of South Bend, state police said.The accident occurred close to Bristol, Indiana, at approximately 6:45am when a tractor trailer crashed into the back of a passenger vehicle in traffic that had slowed down due to a prior accident on the same road.The accident sparked an accordion style...

• Fishers Couple Killed in Car Accident with Semi-Trailer

  Chrissie Cole | February 06, 2008 11:29 PM | 0 CommentsIndianapolis, IN Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A Fishers couple died in a fatal car accident while visiting Warren County on business. The accident occurred when a semi-trailer struck their vehicle in dense fog, according to authorities."You couldn't see 50 feet," a Warren County Sheriff said of the conditions at the time of the accident on Ind. 63. "We didn't even reconstruct the crash because we had to get the vehicles off the road to...

• Five Injured in Vermillion Car Accident; One in Critical Condition

  Chrissie Cole | October 28, 2007 5:31 PM | 0 CommentsIndianapolis, IN Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A two car accident on Indiana 163, Friday, left five people injured - one remains in critical condition.The accident occurred when a westbound vehicle going around a turn lost control of the vehicle, spun and crashed into an eastbound car, according to police. Rain is a factor in her losing control of the vehicle. Alcohol was not a factor in the accident.Those injured in the accident include: A...

• Mother Attempting to Outrun Train, Crashes, and Kills Two Children

  Jenny Albano | September 06, 2007 4:44 PM | 0 CommentsIndianapolis, IN Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A women in Indiana tried to outrun a freight train by cutting through a parking lot and making a quick turn, but failed to notice another train coming from the other direction. The westbound train hit the car and ran it into the eastbound train. Two of her children were pronounced dead on the scene, and the women, Edie Bolanos, is in critical condition.Authorities released a surveillance video...

• Driver Killed in Weather Related Crash

  Christina Cole | February 14, 2007 9:50 PM | 0 CommentsBloomington, IN Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A driver was pronounced dead on the scene after she lost control of her car in a weather related car accident, police said.Police say the driver was going east around 8am on a snow covered highway, half-mile west of Indiana 39 when she lost control of the vehicle she was driving. She was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the accident.Her car slid across the highway into westbound traffic and...

• Jay County School Bus Involved in Multi-Car Crash

  Chrissie Cole | January 25, 2008 8:44 PM | 0 CommentsIndianapolis, IN Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A Jay County school bus, a semi-truck and three other vehicles were involved in a car accident this morning just after 7 a.m. No one was seriously injured in the accident, according to Indiana State Police.The accident occurred when the driver of a semi-truck rear-ended a van. The van then struck an SUV and the SUV rear-ended another car which then struck a Jay County School bus that was...

• Coal City Man Killed in Car Accident

  Chrissie Cole | August 29, 2007 2:44 AM | 0 CommentsBloomington, IN Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A Clay County man, 52, died from injuries he suffered in a two-vehicle accident, on Tuesday that also sent a 17-year-old girl to the hospital.The girl was transported to the hospital for non-life threatening injuries and released.The man was driving his Ford F250 north on Indiana 159 when the girl trying to pull out of the driveway on the east side of the road, according to Clay County Sheriff's...

• Car - Train Accident Kills Two Women

  Christina Cole | March 17, 2007 1:44 AM | 0 CommentsBloomington, IN Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  An unfortunate train-car accident today resulted in a commuter train colliding with a car at a railroad crossing, killing two women, said transit police.The driver of the car was trying to beat the train across the tracks on Sunday, said the Police Chief for the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District that is in charge of operating the railroad.Both women were pronounced dead at the...

• Woman Falls Asleep Behind the Wheel, Crashes Into In-law's

  Chrissie Cole | March 14, 2008 1:55 PM | 0 CommentsIndianapolis, IN Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A woman on her way home from the night shift caused a car accident when she apparently fell asleep behind the wheel and struck another vehicle, killing her father-in-law, according to police.The man, 73, of Bloomfield, was pronounced dead at the scene. The accident occurred on Indiana 54 in Southwestern Indiana.A helicopter transported his wife and passenger to Methodist Hospital, in...

• Indiana Man Could Face Up to 8 Years in Prison for Deadly Accident

  Chrissie Cole | February 29, 2008 1:31 AM | 0 CommentsIndianapolis, IN Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  An Indiana man is facing up to eight years in prison for a deadly head-on collision two years ago that claimed a mother and two children and left two others permanently disabled.On Friday, the driver of the car responsible for the accident admitted he was speeding when his car left the center lane and caused the crash."It's a case where three people were killed and two additional [victims] have...