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TROOPER STRUCK MOVE OVER, SLOW DOWN
Indiana State Police Sergeant Richard Kelly age 36, had pulled over a semi-tractor trailer on the shoulder of northbound I-65 in Clinton County, a mile north of S.R. 28 (159 mm) and was conducting an inspection of the truck when the patrol car he was sitting in, was struck from behind by another semi-tractor trailer at 12:40 p.m. yesterday.
The cruisers front and rear ends were nearly disintegrated and left the vehicle partially wedged under one of the trucks, Kelly pulled himself from the wreckage and called the Lafayette District on his department cell phone to report the crash. The 13 year state police veteran assigned to the Lafayette District was taken by ambulance to Home Hospital in Lafayette, with a broken vertebra and several cuts.
The Indiana State Police remind drivers that Indiana law requires motorists to approach cautiously when an emergency vehicle is stopped on two or four lane roadways with emergency lights flashing.