Shelby County Crash Kills Child, Multiple Other Injuries – Indianapolis News | Weather Indiana | Indiana traffic

SHELBY COUNTY, IN (WISH) – A Saturday evening crash involving three vehicles left a six-year-old dead and several others injured in eastern Shelby County.

At 6 p.m., a man and woman from Shelbyville and a 6-year-old child from Fairland were in a 2005 Ford Explorer eastbound along SR 44 and stopped to turn north onto CR 600E.

A 2011 Chevrolet Tahoe drove behind that Ford but did not slow down or swerve to avoid the vehicle, the Sheriff Department says. That’s when the 43-year-old Indianapolis woman driving the Tahoe crashed into the back of the Ford Explorer.

The impact pushed the Ford into oncoming traffic, where a Chrysler Town and Country traveling westbound struck it.

The Chrysler was driven by an Arlington man and had four juveniles in the van.

Multiple injuries were reported in the crash and the passengers were taken to hospitals. The Shelby County Sheriff Department has not released the conditions of the other injured passengers.