DEKALB CO., Ind. (ADAMS) – Indiana State Police say that a Michigan woman was hurt in a crash on I-69 Thursday morning.
Police and medics were called just before 7 a.m. to the 340-mile marker on a report of a crash where a vehicle had rear-ended a semi.
According to a DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office crash report, 61-year-old Beatriz Halbert of Lansing had just merged onto Interstate 69 from S.R. 4 in a 2017 Nissan Rogue when she rear-ended a southbound 2002 Kenworth semi driven by 30-year-old John Merritt of Angola.
Halbert said she did not see the semi.
Halbert suffered injuries to her head, chest, and arm, and was taken to a local hospital. The Nissan was totaled in the crash, according to the report.