Six members of an indie-pop band from Chicago were injured in a Thursday
afternoon crash on I-65 north of Rensselaer, the Indiana State Police said.
Police said that the six members of the Scotland Yard Gospel Choir were
taken to nearby and Chicago-area hospitals following the 3:50 p.m. crash at
the 218 milemarker three miles north of the Rensselaer exit.
Police said a prelimininary investigation showed that the band’s 1999
Chevrolet van was southbound when one of its tires failed. The van went off
the road to the right, then swerved back before going into the grassy
median. It then rolled over numberous times, police said.
The front seat passenger, Mark Yoshizumi, had to be extricated and was
airlifed to Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Ill., with leg, internal injuries
and major head trauma. The driver, Eliezer Santana Junior, was taken to
Jasper County Hospital with minor bleeding and a concussion, police said.
Three other passengers, Alison Hinderliter, Ethan Adelsman, and Elias
Einhorn, suffered head trauma. The only passenger not wearing a seat belt,
Mary Ralph, was ejected out the passenger window and suffered head trauma
and a shoulder injury, police said.
The ISP said the band was headed to Cincinnati. All band members are from
Chicago.
One lane of southbound I-65 ws closed for about one hour, police said.