Indiana State Police are investigating a two-vehicle crash involving a semi and a car at the intersection of State Road 27, also signed as North 13th Street, and Winchester Road in Decatur.
The crash happened just before 9 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 22. Police say a 2012 Mini Cooper was traveling north on U.S. 27 approaching Winchester Road when it slowed and stopped in the right lane, at a time when emergency vehicles were stopped on Winchester just west of U.S. 27 to slow southbound traffic.
A 2024 Peterbilt tractor pulling a semi-trailer, also traveling northbound, struck the back of the Mini Cooper, according to the preliminary investigation.
The driver of the Mini Cooper, Jason Ward, 49, of Ohio City, Ohio, was critically injured and was taken to a local hospital. The driver of the Peterbilt, Jacob Keiffer, 30, of Hartford City, was not injured.
The crash remains under investigation by the state police Area II Critical Incident Reconstruction Team and the Commercial Motor Vehicle Division. Decatur police and fire, the Adams County Sheriff's Department and Adams County EMS assisted at the scene.
