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ISP: Impatient driver injured in I-65 crash

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A Demotte man was injured Wednesday after losing control of his car on I-65 while trying to pass a semi on the right, the Indiana State Police said.

According to police, at 5:50 p.m. Nathan Ruddach, 20, of Demotte, was northbound on I-65, four miles south of the Demotte exit, and traveling in the left lane behind a semi which was passing slower traffic in the right lane.

Ruddach became “impatient,” police said, and before the trucker could return to the right lane he made a move to the right himself to pass. Ruddach had nearly cleared the semi when he attempted to get back into the left lane but “cut over too soon,” police said, the rear of his 2002 Honda CRV clipping the tractor’s right front corner.

The impact caused Ruddach’s Honda to fishtail and he over-corrected, lost control, and while spinning out hit the semi’s trailer, police said. The Honda then began rolling, only to strike a second semi.

Ruddach sustained non-life threatening injuries and was airlifted to Christ Advocate Hospital in Oak Lawn, Ill.

“If Ruddach had not been wearing his seat belt he may have been ejected from his vehicle,” Trooper Corey Dupuy said. “Luckily, for everyone because he was using his seat belt his injuries were much less than they could have been.”

The driver of the first semi hit by Ruddach was Anthony Orndorff, 29, of Hammond; the driver of the second, David Simon, 53, of Stanton, Mich. Neither trucker was injured, police said.

The northbound lanes of I-65 were closed until 7:06 p.m.

 

 

 

Posted 6/4/2015

 
 

 

 

 

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