Automobile Accidents

• Automobile Accidents can have Devestating Effects

  Fred Schultz | July 11, 2008 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsBloomington, IN

  We all take for granted that when we get behind the wheel of a car, we are going to get wherever we are going safely. Unfortunately, that is not always the case. Recently, two teenage boys were...

• Wet Roads Can Cause Auto Accidents

  Fred Schultz | July 10, 2008 8:00 AM | 1 CommentBloomington, IN

  With all the rain that we have been experiencing, it is very important to remember that wet roads can lead to serious, and sometimes fatal, automobile accidents. A recent example of this occurred on...

• Coal City Man Killed in Car Accident

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

  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...

• Bloomington Woman Injured in Car Accident

  Christina Cole | May 17, 2007 2:00 AM | 0 CommentsBloomington, IN

  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 Killed in Car Crash on Indiana Toll Road

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

  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...

• Car - Train Accident Kills Two Women

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

  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...

• Infant Trapped After Car Crash

  Christina Cole | March 05, 2007 2:38 PM | 0 CommentsBloomington, IN

  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...

• Man Injured in Car Accident with Semi-Truck

  Christina Cole | February 19, 2007 7:51 PM | 0 CommentsBloomington, IN

  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.

• Driver Killed in Weather Related Crash

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

  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...

• Woman Dies After Car Skids Off Road, Sinks in Pond

  Christina Cole | January 29, 2007 1:29 AM | 0 CommentsBloomington, IN

  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...