Bargersville man dies after 4-vehicle crash on I-465 SB on east side
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A Bargersville man died in a fatal crash Friday afternoon on I-465 southbound just north of I-70, Indiana State Police says.
Marc Kellams, 73, died at the crash scene, police say.
State police Sgt. John Perrine told News 8 that the four-vehicle crash was reported about 4:23 p.m. Friday. Indiana Department of Transportation says the crash happened between on the southbound lanes between East 30th Street and I-70.
Police arrived to find a heavily damaged Acura SUV with Kellams and a woman trapped inside, says a news release issued shortly after 10:05 p.m. from state police. The woman, who was not named in the release, was taken to a hospital with serious injuries.
A passenger in a box truck involved in the crash also received minor injures not believed to be life-threatening. The release did not give that passenger’s name.
Investigators think traffic on I-465 had stopped just south of I-70 for unknown reasons. The driver of the box truck did not stop for the backed-up traffic and struck the back of the Acura “at highway speeds,” the release says, and caused a chain-reaction crash of four vehicles.
Drugs and alcohol were not believed to be factors in the crash.
By 5:50 p.m. Friday, the backup extended onto southbound I-69 and covered the entire stretch of southbound lanes on the east side.
WIBC, a WISH-TV newsgathering partner, tweeted, “Surreal. Almost the whole southbound side is shutdown on the east side,” adding that delay times were as high as 129 minutes.