TWO ILLINOIS RESIDENTS KILLED IN CAR ACCIDENT WITH SEMI TRUCK ON INTERSTATE 70 IN HENRY COUNTY INDIANA JUST EAST OF INDIANAPOLIS
The Henry County Indiana Sheriff's Department reported that 31-year-old Timeka Felton and 12-year-old Justin Boxley of Kankakee, Illinois, were killed and two others injured when their car struck the rear of a semi truck and trailer just after 7 a.m. on Thursday. The two were pronounced dead at the scene.
Also injured, Nicholas Felton, 38 of Kankakee, Illinois. He was initially taken to Henry County Memorial Hospital in New Castle. He was later transferred to Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. Mya Jackson, 6, another passenger in the vehicle, was taken by life flight to Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis.
According to their initial investigation, police believe the semi tractor was eastbound when it collided with a different passenger vehicle. It was believed that the semi driver then stopped his truck in the left lane, at which time the Felton vehicle slammed into the right rear of the trailer becoming pinned underneath it. Police do not believe that weather was a factor in the accident.
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