(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Two people were seriously hurt in a chain-reaction crash on Interstate 65 in northwest Indiana Monday morning.
Indiana State Police Sgt. Glen Fifield said a tanker truck hauling liquid sugar ran off southbound Interstate 65 about eight miles south of Roselawn, which created a backup that ended with a multi-vehicle crash. Fifield said it started with a box truck that was traveling too fast and rammed into a passenger car.
"The driver of the passenger car was trapped inside the vehicle, had to be extricated and had to be transported out for serious injuries, and then a child in another vehicle sustained serious injuries," he said.
Crews work to offload liquid sugar from a tanker that veered off of Interstate 65 in Indiana on Monday.Indiana State Police
Fifield said the driver of the car was taken by ambulance to a hospital in Lafayette. The seriously injured child was taken to a hospital in Crown Point.
The driver of the box truck had apparently been distracted, possibly by a GPS device or smartphone, Fifield added.
No liquid sugar spilled. It was offloaded to another tanker.
All lanes along southbound Interstate 65 near Roselawn reopened by 11 a.m.
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