Fishers Man Dies Following Crash On I-69 SB

MADISON COUNTY, IN -- A Fishers man is dead following a two-vehicle crash on I-69 southbound Monday afternoon that also injured the other driver, Indiana State Police say. ISP says troopers were called to the crash around 3:15 p.m. on I-69 southbound at the 222 mile marker where they found the scene involving a tanker semi and a Honda CRV, and shut down the area for nearly three hours. According to state police, troopers found the CRV, driven by 49-year-old Roscoe Murray, of Fishers, had run into the back of an empty semi tanker that was stopped in traffic for an INDOT construction zone ahead.

ISP says Murray was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital where he died from his injuries.

The semi's driver, 44-year-old Dereon Bond, from Decatur, IL, was taken to St. Vincent's in Anderson with minor, non-life threatening injuries, ISP says.

ISP says at this point in the investigation Trooper Justin Beamon and Trooper Coley McCutcheon have found that Murray was accelerating down the ramp from MLK Blvd. to get onto the interstate before failing to see the stopped traffic ahead of him.

Troopers Beamon and McCutcheon were assisted by other troopers, law enforcement officials and local EMS, police and fire teams.

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