December 24, 2008

Icy weather leads to accidents

       Although surrounding departments were busy handling multiple automobile accidents throughout the afternoon, the White River Township Fire Department responded to only three such calls.  Of the nineteen emergency calls yesterday, only three were auto accidents attributed to the ice weather.  One of the incidents however required an extrication task force to remove a victim who was trapped in his overturned truck.  The accident occurred on State Road 37 just north of Stones Crossing Road when the driver lost control of his vehicle, skidded through the median, and overturned on the opposite side of the highway ultimately landing in a drainage ditch.  The victim was conscious but trapped in the vehicle for about twenty minutes before firefighters could cut him out.  He was transported to Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis via Rural/Metro Ambulance service with unspecified injuries.  Traffic, which was already slowed because of freezing rain, was delayed for a little over an hour. 
 

           
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