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Officials at an amusement park in Indiana are blaming injuries to over forty people on a defective pump. In reports to the press, the President of Holiday World Splashin Safari in Indiana reported that a filter pump malfunction on a water ride sent highly concentrated levels of bleach and muriatic acid into the Bahari River waters at Splashin' Safari on Saturday. The leak caused severe breathing injuries and sent 24 people to nearby hospitals via ambulance. Press reports indicated that nearly 18 others arrived on their own. Two people were kept overnight for observation and have since been released.

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Erin C. Ford, 20, of Coatesville, became the second victim to succumb to injuries in Sunday's head on collision on Interstate 70. Ford was taken off life support at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana, at approximately 4:15 p.m. on Sunday afternoon according to a press release.
The two-car crash happened around 6 p.m. Saturday near Indiana Highway 267.

Luke Lovins, 21, the driver of the vehicle in which Ford was riding, was pronounced dead at the scene. Lovins had been driving eastbound in his 2005 Chevrolet Malibu with four passengers, including Ford, when a westbound 2000 Ford pickup truck driven by Alfredo Luviano Martinez, 31, of St. Louis, crossed the median and hit them head on.

Thomas F. Ford, 53, Coatesville, remained in critical condition late Sunday at Wishard Memorial Hospital. Debora S. Ford, 50, and Chandler B. Ford, 13, both of Coatesville, Indiana, were taken to Methodist on Saturday and were listed in critical condition.

Martinez was treated at Methodist and released Saturday. Police said his pickup truck might have blown a tire just before the crash. Martinez was not cited, and alcohol is not believed to be a factor in the fatal collision.

The wife of Peru resident and PGA golf professional, Chris Smith, was killed and his children severely injured in a crash on Interstate 69 near Angola, Indiana. Beth Smith was killed while returning from a Father's Day visit with her family in Toledo, Ohio and the SUV she was driving collided with a Greyhound bus transporting a semipro football team from Canada.

Smith's children, Abigail and Cameron, were transported by helicopter to Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne, where they were listed in critical condition late Sunday. Their father, Chris Smith, has been competing in the PGA since 1991.

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Dr. Philip Gabriele, 44, and his wife Marcella, 33, were found slain Monday morning at the office of the Gabriele Eye Institute in Elkhart, Indiana. Gabrielle, a well-known eye surgeon in the area, had been under Federal indictment pertaining to 15 patients he had provided treatment for in the past. Reports indicated that the 15 cases involved allegations of healthcare fraud, and were only a small fraction of the over 13,000 patients he had treated over the years.

A family friend of the Gabrieles, Susan Manuszak, told police that when she went to the Gabriele home in Granger Monday morning, she found a suicide note. She called police and met them at the Gabriele Eye Institute Office in Elkhart, where the bodies were located.

The deaths were discovered on the day the Gabrieles were puportedly to turn themselves in to law enforcement to face the alleged health care fraud charges.

85-year-old Rochester native, Rosemary Drake, was flown to Fort Wayne, Indiana, after a serious car crash in Warsaw on Sunday. Police say that Drake was headed northbound on Indiana 15 near the intersection of County Road 250 North when her vehicle collided with another vehicle driven by Teresa Cervantes, 38, of Leesburg. Police reported that the impact occurred as Cerveantes attempted to make a right hand turn at the light.

Drake was initially taken to Kosciusko Community Hospital, but was later transferred in critical condition to a Fort Wayne facility. Police reported in a press release that she was scheduled to undergo surgery on Monday morning.