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Updated: 1:17 PM Jan 8, 2007
Indiana Crash Involves WI Driver
Wisconsin semi-driver involved in fatal traffic accident in Indiana
Posted: 9:08 PM Jan 7, 2007 |
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Southbound lanes of Interstate 65 were closed for several hours Sunday night after a fatal traffic accident and diesel fuel spill near Lebanon, Indiana.
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Police say 67-year-old Theodore Engelberth of Palantine, Illinois, died instantly about four-p.m. Sunday when a semitrailer struck his car on the south side of Lebanon.
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Police say Engelberth was slowing with other traffic for a previous accident when his car was struck from behind by a semi and pushed into a bridge abutment.
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The semi driven by Stephen Ellickson of Waunakee, Wisconsin, then struck a second semi and spilled the second truck's cargo onto one lane and the berm.
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Neither truck driver was injured.
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Debris from all three vehicles was scattered across the interstate at the accident scene just north of Indianapolis.
