INDIANAPOLIS — A crash involving multiple semis closed part of I-465 on Indianapolis' south side Monday morning.
The crash happened near I-65 just before 8 a.m. and involved 4 semi trucks, a box truck and a car.
Indianapolis Fire Department PIO Rita Reith says preliminary reports indicate that one of the semis was slowed to a stop for traffic and the vehicles behind it were unable to stop in time and caused a chain-reaction crash in the slow lane. That crash caused the box truck to go off the interstate and into the grass.
Reith said one of the semis was hauling a flatbed trailer carrying steel rods. Those rods came off the truck and penetrated into the passenger side of the front windshield of the white AutoBann semi behind it and into the rear bedding area of the cab where one of the men was sleeping. Neither men in that truck was seriously injured.
Four patients were taken to the hospital, three semi drivers and one passenger. All had non-life threatening injuries. The box truck driver and both occupants of the car were uninjured.
The crash remains under investigation by Indiana State Police.
