Hammond, Lake County-A Gary, IN woman can attest that wearing your seat belt and having air bags favorably impacted her this morning when she lost control of her car and hit a semi.
Preliminary investigation by Master Trooper Rob Latiker revealed that at approximately 8:00 a.m., this Monday, March 13, 2017, morning a 1996 Ford Crown Victoria, driven by Wykesha Sanders, 37 of Gary was in the right middle lane (four lanes) on I-80/94 at the 2 mile marker (Indianapolis Boulevard) when she changed lanes to go into the right lane. Sanders stated that a car in the right hit their brakes causing her to brake also. Sanders lost control of her Crown Victoria, went back across west bound traffic to the north and hit a semi-trailer in the left middle lane.
The semi, a 2014 Freightliner pulling a box trailer, owned by Super Service of Illinois, and driven by Vern Nice, 61 of Titusville, Florida, was hit on the trailer’s front tandems. The Crown Victoria’s driver’s side and hood went under the trailer. Sanders had to be extricated from her vehicle by Hammond Fire Department. Because Sanders was wearing her seat belts and her air bags deployed she was taken to Munster Community Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Nice was not injured.
Assisting: Sergeant Lee Wright, Hammond Fire and EMS, and Double T Towing
Reminder: Operation Pull Over, “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” allows increased enforcement this month and is a statewide effort supported by federal funding allocated to the state police from the Traffic Safety Division of the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute (ICJI). Motorists can expect to see added patrols and sobriety checkpoints during this month’s enforcement period.
All criminal defendants are to be presumed innocent until, and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
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Picture is of the Crown Victoria
