One person was killed and two others, including a child, were seriously hurt in a multi-vehicle crash Thursday afternoon on Interstate 90 near the state line in Indiana.
Just before 1:30 p.m., a semi-truck was slowing down because of traffic in the eastbound lanes of I-90 near the Columbia Avenue overpass in Hammond, Indiana. The driver of a Kia Sorento following the truck also slowed down, but another semi-truck rear-ended the Kia, pushing it underneath the trailer of the first semi, Indiana State Police said.
A passenger in the Kia was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver and a child passenger in the Kia were hospitalized with injuries considered to be “life-threatening,” police said.
All except one lane of traffic was closed after the crash. They reopened just after 6 p.m., police said.
Police were investigating the crash.
