UPDATE: One Injured In SR 15 Crash
By Deb Patterson
InkFreeNews
MILFORD — Mauricio Martinez, 22, Warsaw, was taken to a local hospital for non-life threatening injuries following a two-vehicle collision on SR 15, at 9367 N. SR 15, Milford, south of CR 1000N. The call was received by the Indiana State Police at 12:54 p.m.
Martinez reportedly suffered bleeding to the nose and hand and scrapes to the leg.
The state police reported Jeffrey Norman, 53, Dennison, Ohio, was northbound on SR 15 in a 2019 Freightliner when he looked down, away from the roadway. When he looked up the car in front of him was stopping or quickly slowing. Norman swerved his vehicle to the right, going off the roadway into the ditch. He then swerved to the left and as he was crossing the southbound lane of SR 15, his vehicle was struck by the Martinez vehicle.
Martinez was southbound on SR 15 in a 2015 Chevrolet Impala.
According to information received from the spouse of the driver in front of Norman’s vehicle, traffic was moving at an abnormally slow pace and the line of traffic had been moving together prior to Leesburg, then through and continued on after. The female driver, who had three children in the vehicle, heard tires squealing and saw Norman go off the road to avoid hitting her vehicle and lose control of his vehicle in the snow. The female driver accelerated to avoid the Freightliner as it came back on the road, into the path of the Impala.
Emergency personnel had SR 15 closed until the vehicles were removed at 1:44 p.m.