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Monday, December 30, 2013
Two people were injured and two trucks caught fire Tuesday morning after three semi-trucks crashed in Northwest Indiana. The crash shut down all northbound lanes, and police had opened one lane by 8:15 a.m. The three semis crashed while traveling northbound on Interstate 65 near Ridge Road around 3:24 a.m., Indiana State Police said. A driver and passenger in one of the trucks were transported to an area hospital, but details on their conditions were not immediately known.
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Saturday, December 28, 2013

Two children from North Carolina died in a five-vehicle crash in southwest Alabama.

State troopers said 7-year-old Naziya Gillis and 9-year-old Nadir Gillis of Camp LeJune, N.C., were killed when the Dodge Challenger in which they were riding was struck by a tractor-trailer truck.

The driver of the Dodge, 28-year-old Isom Hodges, and a passenger, 30-year-old Labricia Hodges, both of Camp LeJune, were injured. The driver of another car, 42-year-old William Rousey of Lexington, Ky., was also injured. No other drivers, including the truck driver, were injured.

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Saturday, December 28, 2013

The southbound lane of Interstate 65 was closed near Atmore late Sunday after at least two people were killed and one critically injured in a multi-vehicle accident involving an 18-wheeler.

According to the Alabama Highway Patrol, the southbound lane will remain closed until around 10:30 a.m. Traffic is being rerouted at the 54 mile marker.

The Poarch Creek Tribal Police Department received the first call about an accident at the 51 mile marker at about 10:45 p.m. Sunday night, a dispatcher there said.

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Wednesday, December 18, 2013
State police say a car spun out of control on a northwestern Indiana highway and plowed into a trooper's parked cruiser. Police say Trooper Brandon Henderson stopped about 4:30 a.m. Thursday at the scene on Interstate 65 in Merrillville where a pickup truck had hit a slick spot and crashed into the highway's guardrail. Henderson parked his cruiser behind the truck with its emergency lights on and was out talking with the driver when a car also lost control on the slick road. That car slammed into the trooper's car and pushed it into the wrecked truck.
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Friday, December 13, 2013

Northbound lanes of traffic on Interstate 65 in Indiana are shut down after a tanker truck rolled over Saturday morning.

The northbound lanes were shut down on the expressway near Interstate 80/94 about 9 a.m., Indiana State Police said.

Traffic there could be shut down for more than two hours as HazMat crews clear the scene, according to the Indiana Dept. of Transportation.

I-65 traffic can exit westbound onto 1-94 but not eastbound, according to INDOT.

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Tuesday, December 10, 2013

A multiple-car pileup on the northbound lanes of I-65 near County Line Road left at least one motorist injured and snagged rush-hour traffic.

The scene was cleared and lanes reopened by 9:30 a.m.

The accident happened around 7:30 a.m.

Crews were extricating at least one injured motorist from a vehicle, according to police-fire radio traffic.

Date: 
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
The accident was reported at 10:40 a.m. on the interstate near the exit to Lewis and Clark Parkway. Police determined the driver ran over an expansion joint on the interstate that jarred the truck, forcing open the unlocked gate on the bed of the truck and causing the spill that closed three of the four lanes until Indiana Department of Transportation crews could clear it. There were six secondary crashes that happened as a result of the spill, but no one was injured.
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Sunday, December 8, 2013
A semi driver was injured this afternoon in a rollover on I-65 in Boone County. The accident at 4:24 p.m. also has closed the right-hand northbound lane of the interstate, according to a news release from the Boone County Sheriff’s Office. Witnesses said the semi was traveling northbound when it drifted into the middle lane and then abruptly turned into the right lane before crossing a side ditch and striking a guardrail. The semi then rolled over onto its side, before stopping on Perry Worth Road, near the 136-mile marker, the release said.
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Saturday, December 7, 2013

An Avon woman died Sunday evening from injuries she suffered in a three-vehicle crash in Jasper County.

Preliminary information revealed at around 5:15 p.m. Sunday a Jeep driven by 28-year-old Ashley A. Rogers was driving southbound on Interstate 65 at the 225.5 mile marker when she lost control for unknown reasons.

Police say road conditions were snow covered and slippery at the time of the crash.