Richmond , IN : A 22-year-old woman was killed and two other were injured in a four-vehicle crash at Interstate 70 On Sunday, May 22nd, 2016
A 22-year-old woman from Boston was killed, and her passenger injured in a crash this afternoon that shut down eastbound Interstate 70 for more than five hours.
The four-vehicle crash was reported around 3:50 p.m. during a traffic backup just west of the Centerville Road exit, according to the Indiana State Police.
Preliminary investigation shows a red eastbound 2015 Volvo semi driven by Harvinder Singh Bhagtana, 21, of Fresno, California, was going too fast for traffic conditions while heading into a construction zone. Traffic at the time was backed up for
five or six miles and was slow to stopped for a lane closure up ahead, troopers said. Bhagtana was not able to stop before glancing off the rear corner of a 2016 Acura driven by 21-year-old Nicholas Berry of Naperville, Illinois. Bhagtana’s semi then
went into the left lane and struck the rear of a 2009 Audi, driven by Margaret Ryan, 22, of Boston. The impact pushed Ryan’s sport-utility vehicle under the semi in front of her.
Ryan was pronounced dead at the scene. Her passenger, Christine Yip, 25, of St. Louis, was taken to Reid Health Hospital in Richmond, where her injuries are not life-threatening, troopers said.
The driver of the second semi, William Weatherford III, 51, of Palm Coast, Florida, was not injured, and neither were Berry and Bhagtana, who was cited for speed too fast to avoid collision, troopers said.
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Boston woman killed in I-70 crash in Indiana