Car slides through standing water; crash on I-94 injures Indiana trooper

PORTAGE, Ind. (WISH) — An Indiana trooper was harm Monday afternoon whereas investigating a single-vehicle crash on I-94 in northwestern Indiana, the state police say.

Indiana Division of Transportation cameras captured the scene of the crash that occurred simply after 1:20 p.m. CDT Monday within the eastbound lanes of I-94, simply east of the State Street 249 interchange.

State police say in a information launch {that a} black 2021 Kia automotive and semitractor-trailer struck Trooper Jeff Council whereas he was in his automotive.

The Kia driver, John P. Lopez, 37, from Lisle, Illinois, had misplaced management when driving by way of standing water, inflicting the semitruck to jackknife within the confusion and hit the Dodge Charger that Council was in.

Buttar Sandeep Singh, 44, of Georgetown, Ontario, was driving the semitruck.

A 2009 Nissan Frontier pickup, pushed by Don Bell, 74, from Anchorage, Alaska, was additionally hit by the semitruck.

Police say the collisions brought about extreme harm to the police automotive, and Council was taken to hospital for therapy. The discharge didn’t give Council’s situation.

The drivers of the semi, the Kia and the Frontier weren’t harm.