IMPD: Sunday night crash kills 2, injures 1

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Police say alcohol might have been a think about a crash that killed two folks Sunday night time on town’s south facet.

Officers responded to a crash simply earlier than 10 p.m. on the intersection of Meridian Road and Southport Street.

Investigators imagine an Acura sedan was headed south on Meridian Road at a excessive charge of velocity when the driving force ran the pink gentle at Southport Street and crashed into the driving force’s facet door of a Hyundai sedan that was making an attempt to show from Southport onto Meridian, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Division stated in a press release Monday.

The motive force of the Acura and a passenger within the Hyundai have been pronounced lifeless shortly after arriving at an area hospital, IMPD says. The motive force of the Hyundai was taken to a hospital in crucial situation.

The Marion County Coroner’s Workplace will share the names of the victims after their members of the family have been notified

Drivers ought to at all times watch out on the roads, particularly throughout winter climate, IMPD Capt. Don Weilhammer says.

“Decelerate, take your time, and permit further time to get to wherever you’re going. Wednesday, I perceive, we’d get a few inches (of snow) — once more, decelerate. Lots of people in large vans with their 4-wheel drive and all that, suppose they will get by means of it. And so they would possibly have the ability to get by means of it, however you continue to have the identical downside of with the ability to cease in time. It’s not price inflicting a crash, so decelerate and provides it further time.”

The crash was nonetheless underneath investigation. Anybody with info was requested to contact IMPD.