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Four-car accident at Lloyd/Wabash injures two

Posted on Jan 15, 2009

A four-car wreck Wednesday afternoon, January 14, 2009, flipped one vehicle onto its top and saw another struck by two others in rapid succession at an intersection.

The collision occurred at Wabash Avenue and the Lloyd Expressway and sent at least two people to Deaconess Hospital with what appeared to be injuries that were not life threatening.

Jerry Ramsey an Evansville resident was westbound on the Lloyd at roughly 3 p.m. waiting to turn left onto Wabash when the adult female driver of a black Lincoln, immediately in front of him, tried to make the turn without having the right of way. "She turned, and I thought, 'Oh my, here we go,'" Ramsey said at the scene. "She turned with a line of three cars (eastbound on the Lloyd) coming right at her who had the right of way."

First, a black Hyundai and then a Jeep Liberty struck the Lincoln's right side. Then, a third car, a white Oldsmobile, swerved in an apparent attempt to avoid the collision but struck the overpass abutment, causing the car to flip and land on its roof.

"It was 'bang, bang,' and then the (Oldsmobile) swerved to miss everybody," Ramsey said. "I put my emergency blinkers on and ran over to the two guys who were in the car that flipped. Ramsey indicated that, "The driver was pretty bloody, looked like he might have a broken nose and the top of his head was cut some. The passenger was trapped in the short side, and I was worried the worst about him, but he was just trapped because of the safety belt." A police officer at the scene used a pocketknife to sever the belt and extricated the men.

Ramsey said that the driver of the Lincoln exited the car and "looked a little dazed, stunned and confused and scared. She didn't appear to be hurt, but she was holding her chest, so I imagine she hit her steering wheel."

The driver of the Jeep Liberty, Camille Owens of Henderson, Ky., stood at the scene after the collision with visible cuts to her left hand but no other injuries.

"A black car pulled out in front of me, and I hit her, and I don't know what happened after that," Owens said. "I had a green light."