Indiana updates tagged with 'Motor Vehicle 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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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A car accident claimed the lives of two international students of Bowling Green State University, in Indiana. Five other students suffered minor injuries in the accident.The crash happened at 12:20 a.m. when the van the students were traveling in, on the Indiana toll road, entered the median and flipped several times along the snowy highway. One of the students, 26, of Kathmandu, Nepal, was...

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A car accident, on Tuesday, claimed the life of an Elizabeth man, 44, according to police.He was traveling northbound in his 1996 Toyota pickup truck, on Indiana 62, when he veered off the roadway north of the Indiana 11 intersection. The truck went over an embankment and crashed into a tree, said a news release by Floyd County Police. Police believe his death may have been prevented if he had...

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A Brookville man, 69, lost his life in a car accident on Wednesday morning, when his vehicle was struck by a semi-truck.The passenger of the vehicle, 49, was transported to Fayette Regional Health Systems and then transferred to Methodist Hospital, in Indianapolis. His current condition is unknown.The driver of the semi-truck told officers that his truck began to slide on the snow filled roads...

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A fatal car accident in Knox County, Indiana, claimed the lives of an elderly brother and sister of Freelandville, Indiana, on Thanksgiving Day.Indiana State Police, in Evansville, say the woman, 88, died at Good Samaritan Hospital while her brother 85, died after being transported by air ambulanced to Wishard Hospital, in Indianapolis.The accident happened just after 5:15 p.m., Thursday, on...

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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...

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A tragic car accident claimed the life of a Brookville couple on Indiana 101, at 11:56 p.m., on Sunday evening.The couple, died within 15 hours of one another. The accident occurred when, for reasons unknown, he drove their Jeep Cherokee off the southbound lane of Indiana 101 and into an embankment, according to a press release by the Franklin County Sheriff's Department.According to the...

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A car accident, Tuesday, on Indiana 32, left a Noblesville man in critical condition. He was transported by air ambulance to Wishard Hospital in Indianapolis with broken ribs, a torn liver and punctured lung.Investigators believe a mechanical defect may be the cause of the accident. Police say the man, 20, lost control of the vehicle and flipped several times.The passenger, 19, of the vehicle...

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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...

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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...

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A driver lost his life and his two passengers were injured in an early morning car accident, in Fishers, that is believed to have involved alcohol, according to police.The driver, 25, was killed when he was ejected from the vehicle. The backseat passenger, 30, of Indianapolis, was also ejected and transported to the hospital for internal injuries sustained in the accident.The front passenger...

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A car accident on Saturday night claimed the life of a Daviess County man, according to the Greene county Sheriff's Department.The man, 52, of Elnora, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident by the Greene County Coroner's office, according to a media statement released by Greene County Sherriff's Department.Witnesses told police that his 1989 White Buick Lasabre was traveling southbound...

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