GREENE CO : Early morning crash kills three members of Newburgh family on Sunday, November 13th 2016

Family members, friends, Castle High School Alumni and members of the community came together Sunday night after three lives were taken in a car crash.

Sunday morning, Indiana State Police received a call regarding a car-deer crash on I 69.

Officials discovered that a car driven by 46-year-old David Rinehart of Newburgh was traveling southbound on I 69 and struck a deer causing the car to pull onto the outside shoulder and stop.

Afterward, a pickup truck driven by 19-year-old Mason Hartkey, of Jasper, was going southbound on I 69 approaching Rinehart when, for unknown reasons, the truck left the southbound lanes of traffic and entered the outside shoulder, hitting Rinehart's car.

The crash resulted in the deaths of David Rinehart, a Worship Arts Academy Director at Crossroads Christian Church in Newburgh, 74-year-old Ruth Rinehart, David's mother, and 17-year-old Sophie Rinehart, a student at Castle High School.

They were heading back from heading back from Indianapolis after a band competition.

Another passenger in the Honda, 18-year-old Josie Rinehart, suffered cuts and abrasions and was transported to IU Health Bloomington.

She is in stable condition.

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Early morning crash kills three members of Newburgh family