Henry County – This has been a bad week for drivers in Henry County. Two people have been killed in separate crashes earlier this week and another bad accident occurred Friday evening, July 31.
An Anderson man was seriously injured Friday night, July 31, when the vehicle he was driving left the roadway and rolled over ejecting him. Around 6:30 p.m., Henry County Sheriff’s Department deputies and officers from the Middletown Police Department responded to a report of a rollover crash in the 9300 block of West County Road 750 North. Deputies and officers arrived to find a Kia Sedona van on its side in the front yard of a residence and a driver who had been ejected and was suffering from serious injuries.
Deputies later requested Indiana State Police Crash Reconstruction Investigators to come to the scene. ISP Trooper J.T. Burns’ initial investigation shows the van was eastbound in the 9300 block of west CR 750 N. at a high rate of speed when the driver lost control, running off the right side of the road. The van began rolling over ejecting the driver, and came to rest in the yard of a home on the southwest corner of CR 750 N. and Mechanicsburg Road.
The driver, Robert C. Clore, 61, Anderson, who was not wearing a safety belt, was taken from the scene by medical helicopter to a hospital in Indianapolis with serious injuries. The crash remains under investigation. Trooper Burns was assisted at the scene by Crash Reconstruction Investigators Sergeant Danielle Elwood-Henderson and Troopers Hanna, McCutcheon and Bradbury; the Middletown Police Department, New Castle EMS, HCSD and Middletown Fire.
Source: ISP Sgt. John Bowling, public information officer Pendleton District. First paragraph by John Estridge