Greenwood, IN: Deadly crash closes I-65 in Greenwood on Friday, July 24th 2015

One person died Friday afternoon in a multiple-vehicle crash on I-65 in the Greenwood area, Indiana State Police officials said.ISP said that a driver traveling in the wrong direction caused the crash. That driver is the same person who set his wife on fire earlier Friday in Franklin, police confirmed.Don Keever threw gas on his wife, Amy Keever, and lit her on fire in the 100 block of Highland Avenue on, according to Franklin police. Done Keever left the scene before police arrived.Amy Keever was taken to Sidney & Lois Eskanazi Hospital in Indianapolis.Later Friday afternoon, police say Don Keever was traveling at a high rate of speed south on I-65 while in the northbound lane. The area is under construction and has three lanes traveling northbound with a concrete median barrier separating the southboundtraffic.Investigators said that driver of the pickup truck abruptly turned into the path of a northbound semi, causing a head-on crash. The semi flipped onto its side.The Ram then continued south, struck a Ford Escape and the concrete barrier, then erupted into flames.The driver of the Dodge Ram did not escape the vehicle and was pronounced dead on the scene.The identity of the driver will be released pending notification of family.The driver of the Ford Escape, 47-year-old David Whitney, was transported to IU Health Methodist Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.The semi driver, 50-year-old Toby Klar, was not injured.Two more vehicles were involved, but neither the drivers or passengers were injured.A separate crash also occurred near the 85-mile marker, between Franklin and Edinburgh.

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Police: Man set wife on fire, drove head-on into semi on I-65