3 Indiana students die in fiery car accident

Three Indiana State College college students died in a fiery single-vehicle accident early Sunday morning, based on a press launch from the college.

There have been 5 folks within the car, all believed to be ISU college students, together with “a number of soccer gamers,” the college stated.

“This can be a horrible tragedy,” ISU President Deborah J. Curtis stated within the assertion. “As we’re ready on further particulars from authorities investigating this accident, our hearts exit to the households and buddies of the scholars concerned.”

Deputies from the Vigo County Sheriff’s Workplace arrived on the scene of the single-vehicle accident at 1:34am Sunday morning.

“The car had left the roadway and struck a tree,” Vigo County Sheriff John Plasse stated in a press release. “Upon deputies arrival, the car, occupied by a driver and 4 passengers, was on hearth.”

Two of the passengers had been free of the automobile with severe accidents and brought for medical remedy however the driver and two others had been pronounced lifeless on the scene, Plasse stated.

The investigation into the accident is ongoing, he added.

An ISU ladies’s soccer match that was scheduled on Sunday afternoon was cancelled because of the incident, based on the college.