December 4, 1996

Wreck injures one critically

       A Carmel woman was in critical condition Tuesday evening after a utility truck collided with her Plymouth Voyager minivan on State Road 37 in White River Township.  Sharon Ray, 35, was ejected from the van in the accident and taken to Wishard Hospital in Indianapolis shortly after noon Tuesday with “massive bodily injuries,” said Johnson County sheriff’s deputy Duane Burgess.  Ray was found facedown about two feet from the van, and had only a faint pulse when paramedics arrived and started administering CPR. She reportedly was not wearing a seat belt.  The driver of the truck, Randy Nelson, 26, of Greenwood, was treated at Community Hospital South for head and face lacerations and released. It is unknown if he was wearing a seatbelt.  Nelson told police he attempted to avoid Ray, who was in the SR. 37 median at County Road 800N, when she pulled out into the highway’s northbound lanes.  Nelson said he moved from the left to right lane to avoid the collision, but, struck the passenger side of the van. Both vehicles then careened into a ditch along the east side of the road, a few feet north of the intersection with CR. 800N.  Nelson’s 1993 white Ford F-35Q truck, owned by Indiana Flooring, sustained front-end damage Ray’s minivan is owned by Wilson Brothers Auto in Indianapolis.  (Reprinted with permission from the Daily Journal)

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