Child airlifted after crash on I-65
JASPER CO., Ind. (WLFI) – A 5-year-old boy was airlifted after a crash on Interstate 65 Sunday afternoon.
It happened around 2:30 p.m. in the southbound lanes of I-65 near the 204 mile marker.
That’s about a mile south of the Remington exit.
Indiana State Police said a 2001 Ford F-350 pick-up was traveling southbound when the truck’s rear tire blew out.
The driver, 26-year-old Terry W. Youngblood Jr., of Lebanon, Tenn., lost control and went off the roadway into a ditch.
After rolling once, the truck landed upright.
A passenger, 5-year-old Bernabe Pena, was not in a child restraint and was partially ejected from the vehicle.
Pena was taken to the National Guard Armory in Remington by ambulance and was later airlifted an Illinois hospital with unknown injuries.
His 7-year-old sister, Bianca Pena, was taken to Jasper County Hospital in Rensselaer, with non-life threatening injuries.
Thirty-year-old Nallely J. Pinancho was also taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Youngblood was cited for a child restraint violation.
Youngblood, the two children’s father and another child were not injured.