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Indianapolis Personal Injury Lawyer articles in category: Automobile Accidents

Posted by Stephen Wagner
May 16, 2008 10:32 PM

Indianapolis has over 3,000 miles of roads, but only six miles of those roads contain designated bike lanes. Should the city add more? Of course! Not only would the availability of more...

Posted by Chrissie Cole
April 13, 2008 5:18 AM

Two people were sent to the hospital on Friday night following a two-car accident on Indiana 43, just after 6 p.m. A GMC truck and an SUV were traveling north on Indiana 43 when the crash occurred,...

Posted by Chrissie Cole
April 09, 2008 1:43 AM

A car accident that claimed the life of an Indianapolis man, 22, on Monday, is being investigated by Boone County Sherriff officials. He was driving northbound in his Honda Civic when he lost...

Posted by Chrissie Cole
March 14, 2008 1:55 PM

A woman on her way home from the night shift caused a car accident when she apparently fell asleep behind the wheel and struck another vehicle, killing her father-in-law, according to police.The man, 73, of Bloomfield, was pronounced dead at the scene. The accident occurred on Indiana 54 in Southwestern Indiana.A helicopter transported his wife and passenger to Methodist Hospital, in...

Posted by Chrissie Cole
February 29, 2008 1:31 AM

An Indiana man is facing up to eight years in prison for a deadly head-on collision two years ago that claimed a mother and two children and left two others permanently disabled.On Friday, the driver of the car responsible for the accident admitted he was speeding when his car left the center lane and caused the crash."It's a case where three people were killed and two additional [victims] have...

Posted by Chrissie Cole
February 06, 2008 11:29 PM

A Fishers couple died in a fatal car accident while visiting Warren County on business. The accident occurred when a semi-trailer struck their vehicle in dense fog, according to authorities."You couldn't see 50 feet," a Warren County Sheriff said of the conditions at the time of the accident on Ind. 63. "We didn't even reconstruct the crash because we had to get the vehicles off the road to...

Posted by Chrissie Cole
January 25, 2008 8:44 PM

A Jay County school bus, a semi-truck and three other vehicles were involved in a car accident this morning just after 7 a.m. No one was seriously injured in the accident, according to Indiana State Police.The accident occurred when the driver of a semi-truck rear-ended a van. The van then struck an SUV and the SUV rear-ended another car which then struck a Jay County School bus that was...

Posted by Chrissie Cole
January 07, 2008 12:42 AM

A car accident claimed the lives of two international students of Bowling Green State University, in Indiana. Five other students suffered minor injuries in the accident.The crash happened at 12:20 a.m. when the van the students were traveling in, on the Indiana toll road, entered the median and flipped several times along the snowy highway. One of the students, 26, of Kathmandu, Nepal, was...

Posted by Chrissie Cole
December 20, 2007 12:49 AM

A car accident, on Tuesday, claimed the life of an Elizabeth man, 44, according to police.He was traveling northbound in his 1996 Toyota pickup truck, on Indiana 62, when he veered off the roadway north of the Indiana 11 intersection. The truck went over an embankment and crashed into a tree, said a news release by Floyd County Police. Police believe his death may have been prevented if he had...

Posted by Chrissie Cole
December 07, 2007 1:17 AM

A Brookville man, 69, lost his life in a car accident on Wednesday morning, when his vehicle was struck by a semi-truck.The passenger of the vehicle, 49, was transported to Fayette Regional Health Systems and then transferred to Methodist Hospital, in Indianapolis. His current condition is unknown.The driver of the semi-truck told officers that his truck began to slide on the snow filled roads...

Posted by Chrissie Cole
November 23, 2007 2:40 AM

A fatal car accident in Knox County, Indiana, claimed the lives of an elderly brother and sister of Freelandville, Indiana, on Thanksgiving Day.Indiana State Police, in Evansville, say the woman, 88, died at Good Samaritan Hospital while her brother 85, died after being transported by air ambulanced to Wishard Hospital, in Indianapolis.The accident happened just after 5:15 p.m., Thursday, on...

Posted by Chrissie Cole
October 28, 2007 5:31 PM

A two car accident on Indiana 163, Friday, left five people injured - one remains in critical condition.The accident occurred when a westbound vehicle going around a turn lost control of the vehicle, spun and crashed into an eastbound car, according to police. Rain is a factor in her losing control of the vehicle. Alcohol was not a factor in the accident.Those injured in the accident include: A...

Posted by Chrissie Cole
October 15, 2007 12:18 AM

A tragic car accident claimed the life of a Brookville couple on Indiana 101, at 11:56 p.m., on Sunday evening.The couple, died within 15 hours of one another. The accident occurred when, for reasons unknown, he drove their Jeep Cherokee off the southbound lane of Indiana 101 and into an embankment, according to a press release by the Franklin County Sheriff's Department.According to the...

Posted by Chrissie Cole
September 19, 2007 2:35 PM

A car accident, Tuesday, on Indiana 32, left a Noblesville man in critical condition. He was transported by air ambulance to Wishard Hospital in Indianapolis with broken ribs, a torn liver and punctured lung.Investigators believe a mechanical defect may be the cause of the accident. Police say the man, 20, lost control of the vehicle and flipped several times.The passenger, 19, of the vehicle...

Posted by Jenny Albano
September 06, 2007 4:44 PM

A women in Indiana tried to outrun a freight train by cutting through a parking lot and making a quick turn, but failed to notice another train coming from the other direction. The westbound train hit the car and ran it into the eastbound train. Two of her children were pronounced dead on the scene, and the women, Edie Bolanos, is in critical condition.Authorities released a surveillance video...

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