Indiana Accident News

Redkey, Indiana, woman airlifted to hospital after her car was crushed by a Semi Truck

The StarPress.com, out of east central Indiana, reported on a horrific three-vehicle accident that occurred on Tuesday afternoon on October 1 in Muncie, IN. Deerinda Lowe, 41, of Redkey, Indiana, was driving westbound on Fuson Street when a semi tractor-trailer approached the intersection of Fuson and Cowan, headed north. The truck driver, Lorn Harris, 61, of Washington, ran through the intersection and crashed into Lowe's car. The truck and car then hit a third vehicle, a Donald Kuhl's Pontiac Firebird, which was heading south on Cowan and turning east onto Fuson.  

Indiana State Police Trooper Mike Davis told the media that the big rig ran through the intersection, hit a utility pole, and ran over a drainage ditch on the northwest corner of the two streets. Witnesses confirmed that the semi drove over the driver's side of Lowe's car, crushing the vehicle while also spinning the car into the third accident victim.

By the time emergency crews arrived, a fire had erupted in Lowe's car, which was extinguished. It then took crews more than an hour to extract the critically injured woman from her car. She was then airlifted to Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, with the help of multiple firefighters and paramedics from Center Township. Lowe was conscious and screaming for help as the crews worked to cut the roof off of her car, which was literally crushed around her.

Harris was ticketed for ignoring an automatic signal. No other people were injured. Since the truck accident knocked out power in the intersection's traffic signal, the road was backed up for hours after the crash. Citizen Mike Phillips got out of his car and directed traffic by hand for over an hour while emergency crews restored power, helped Lowe, and cleaned up the wreckage.

"I was not sure what happened," said Phillips, the son of retired Muncie police officer Jim Phillips. "I was just trying to help."

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