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PCSP: Three teens injured in Ind 8 work zone crash

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Three juveniles were injured on Monday--one of them seriously enough to be airlifted--after the car in which they were riding left the roadway and rolled, on a stretch of Ind. 8 being chip-sealed by the Indiana Department of Transportation, the Porter County Sheriff’s Police said.

According to police, at 2:45 p.m. a 17-year-old Hebron boy was eastbound on Ind. 8 from Hebron when he entered the INDOT work area at a speed reported to be above the limit and subsequently lost control of his 2003 Toyota Celica. Police said that the Toyota left the roadway to the right and rolled over.

The boy and his front-seat passenger, a 14-year-old Hebron girl, were transported to Franciscan St. Anthony Health in Crown Point with non-life threatening injuries, police said.

His back-seat passenger, however, a 17-year-old Hebron girl, was “airlifted for incapacitating injuries,” police said.

“Alcohol and drugs are not believed to be involved,” police said. “However, the investigation is continuing.”

The PCSP reminded motorists to use “extreme caution” when traveling Ind. 8 between Hebron and Kouts.

INDOT announced on Friday that crews would be chip- and fog-sealing that stretch of Ind. 8, warned motorists that “loose stone will be present on the roadway during the initial cure of the asphalt,” and advised them to “slow down and allow additional space between vehicles.”

Late on Monday the PCSP reported that even “normal speeds” were causing motorists, on entering the gravel area, to lose control.

 

Posted 9/1/2015

 
 
 
 

 

 

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