Automobile Accidents | InjuryBoard Bloomington

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...

A Bloomington woman, involved in a one car accident on Sunday, is recovering in Greene County, hospital officials said.The 21-year-old woman was listed in serious condition in the critical care unit of Wishard Memorial Hospital in Indianapolis.She was driving northbound on Indiana 57 near County Road 200 South when her vehicle crossed the center line, began to skid and crashed into a guardrail,...

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...

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...

When firefighters arrived on the scene of a car accident near South Haven, they found a five-month-old baby girl trapped inside the vehicle.The baby was suffocating and turning blue. Her car seat was crushed and her mouth was pressed up against the dashboard.One firefighter worked to turn her head so she could get some air, while another took her from the car. The baby was in the front passenger...

After a car accident on an Indiana toll road, one person is hospitalized.The crash occurred at 10:30 last night near Elkhart. Officials say the driver of a semi-truck was in the process of making an illegal u-turn when a car struck the truck.The car driver was transported to the hospital. At this time there is no information about the severity of injuries.

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...

Icy roads may have caused a woman's car to slide off the road and sink to the bottom of a pond on Sunday morning, said Blooming Police Department.The woman, who could not be named due to her next-of-kin- not yet being notified, was believed to have lost control of her car on Pete Ellis Dr. at the entrance to Woodbridge Apartments.After over-correcting, the 4 door compact car ran off the road...

Police say a Bloomington man drowned when trying to wade across a flooded road after his car wrecked on Indiana 157 in Greene County on Tuesday.James L. Chambers was pronounced dead at the scene. The 77-year-old man's death has been ruled an accidental drowning.Chamber's family reported him missing from his home on Monday. Family members told police Chamber's was an Alzheimer's patient.A Greene...

A Winchester man was killed in a two-vehicle car crash on Indiana 32, on Tuesday morning.The crash took place just before 8 a.m., Gary E. Bumbalough, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. He was traveling eastbound on Indiana 32 when his car collided with a Kelly M. Davis, who was driving westbound in her pickup truck.Police said Davis' truck apparently skidded on the rain-slick...