ELKHART COUNTY — Area residents were injured in three different accidents over the weekend in Elkhart County.

Marcus Macias-Lara Gustavo, 26, Ligonier, suffered a punctured and collapsed lung, broken ribs and complained of body pain following an accident at 4:43 a.m. Sunday, on US 20, west of CR 17. Gustavo was a passenger in a vehicle driven by Alvaro Silva Munoz, 25, Ligonier. He was not injured.

Elkhart County Sheriff’s Department reports a 2003 Honda was stopped on US 20, east of CR 17, after hitting the concrete center barrier in the northern most lane of US 20. A 2016 Freightliner pulling a 26,000 pound enclosed box trailer was parked on the south shoulder of US 20 when the driver went to assist the occupant of the Honda. The Munoz vehicle hit the Honda then struck the trailer of the semi. Munoz and the unnamed driver of the Honda were both administered breathalyzer tests and failed. Munoz and the other driver both also refused a certified chemical breath test and arrested for operating a vehicle while intoxicated.

New Paris Accident

Daniela Espinoza, 18, Cromwell, and Lydia Espinoza, 42, Cromwell, both complained of pain to the neck after a one-vehicle accident on CR 46, east of CR 25, at 5:56 a.m. Saturday. The accident was one-mile east of New Paris. Both were taken to IU Health-Goshen.

Police report Daniela Espinoza was westbound on CR 46 in a 2001 Kia when the vehicle went off the north side of the road and rolled over multiple times before stopping right side up.

Driver Flees Scene

Dorothy Gilkey, 84, Syracuse, complained of pain to the right arm and was taken to IU Health Goshen for treatment, following an accident at 2:45 p.m. Friday, at CR 23 and US 6, four miles south of New Paris.

Police report a driver of a 2005 Chevrolet was southbound on CR 23, north of US 6, when the driver failed to stop at the intersection, hitting the driver’s side of a vehicle driven by Betty Graff, 78, Goshen. Gilkey was a passenger in the Graff vehicle. The driver of the Chevrolet then fled the scene.

The vehicle was later located on South County Line Road, east of CR 23.