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Icy roads lead to busy night |
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Monday, December 03 2007 |
By CHRIS MEYERS
Staff writer
It started at about 4:15 p.m. Saturday with a three-vehicle wreck on U.S. 30 at the intersection with county Road 300 East.
From there, weather and road conditions deteriorated quickly, contributing to more than 30 crashes before 10:30 p.m. No serious injuries were reported.
Calls were coming in from all over the county during the evening, and the eastbound lanes of U.S. 30 west of Larwill were shut down for several hours because the highway was too icy for semis to make it up a hill.
Semi drivers approaching the area were eventually told to park on the shoulder because they would not be able to get up the hill.
Initial reports indicated big rigs were lined up to Wilson Lake Road.
After deputies waited six hours, Indiana Department of Transportation crews arrived with a salt truck to melt the ice and get traffic moving again.
Included in the mayhem for the evening was a rollover wreck on state Route 205 east of county Road 275 West, another slide off on the same road near Acres Curve and several vehicles off the road on the highway near county Road 350 West.
A van rolled in the 7000 south block of state Route 9, and a rollover wreck was reported on state Route 114 about a half a mile east of state Route 9.
Churubusco also had a crash on U.S. 33 in town near the liquor store.
U.S. 30 continued to have problems with one slide off reported in the area of county Road 100 South in addition to vehicles sliding into guardlrails elsewhere on the highway.
For at least three of the wrecks, deputies told dispatchers there would be no police response if the car was driveable did not have significant damage.
As if the onslaught of calls to dispatchers and the hazard to rescuers responding to calls at a max speed of only 30 mph with lights and sirens wasn’t enough, one man called 911 to complain about the slow response to his wreck on U.S. 30 near county Road 500 East.
Driving unsafely in the conditions may have contributed to at least one of the wrecks for the night where a four-wheel drive pickup truck tried to pass a slower moving car only to end up spinning out and hitting the other car. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, December 04 2007 )
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