Snarled traffic can cause car accidents in Indiana
The reasons a car may hit another from behind can be countless. However, when traffic is already snarled due to car accidents, anyone caught in the traffic back-up may be vulnerable to being involved in a rear-end crash. It appears this kind of scenario led to a car accident on an Indiana highway as traffic was slowed for a tractor-trailer crash earlier in the morning.
The initial tractor-trailer accident occurred around 7:30 a.m. on a Tuesday and resulted in traffic that was limited to one lane and slowed to about 10 miles per hour. A 44-year-old woman headed westbound was caught in the slow moving traffic. She was struck from behind, and it was reported that the car that hit her was going at a higher speed.
The woman sustained internal injuries. She needed to be airlifted from the site of the car accident. The driver who hit her, a 46-year-old man, also needed to be airlifted to a hospital after initially receiving treatment at one medical facility.