I ended up spending close to 3 hours combined stuck on the 2 interstates while the cops were doing their thing.
Both crashes involved a driver going the wrong way on the interstate. The second accident was geezer caused (again!).
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lebanon, July 10 - A Zionsville woman died Sunday morning in a accident on I-65 near Lebanon.
Police say 19-year-old Kelly O'Conner's black Toyota was traveling in the southbound lanes when she lost control. She crossed into the northbound lanes near the Lebanon exit and crash into a blue Buick.
O'Conner was end instantly. The couple in the Buick had minor injuries.
The crash shutdown northbound traffic on I 65 for several hours while State Police investigated.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2 dead in I-68 plus 1 crash; man went wrong way Ohioan southbound in a northbound lane hits an Anderson woman's car head-on.
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By Lesley Rogers Barrett
Carrie Brizendine called her parents about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, letting them know she was on her way home to Anderson.
The 22-year-old had been at a Mary Kay meeting in Indianapolis, where she was learning how to sell the cosmetics line.
At 11:30 p.m., Joan Brizendine woke up, and her daughter's car wasn't there.
"We called every hospital and then found out at 1 a.m. she was in that horrible crash," Joan Brizendine said.
Fishers Police are still trying to figure out how a 71-year-old Ohio man ended up going the wrong way on I-68 plus 1, crashing into Carrie Brizendine's car, killing himself and the young woman.
The first 911 call came in at 9:59 p.m. Tuesday, with the report of a driver heading south in a northbound lane with the headlights off, said Fishers Police Sgt. Gerry Hepp.
The caller warned the dispatcher "you might have an accident here really soon."
Then, at 10:01 p.m., callers notified police about the crash.
Brizendine was driving a 2002 Chevrolet Cavalier north when her car was struck head-on.
Police are not releasing the name of the Defiance, Ohio, man because they haven't notified his family.
"Defiance police tried with landlords and still haven't come up with anything," Hepp said.
The man either drove his 1996 Lincoln Continental across the grbutty median on I-68 plus 1 or went the wrong way on an access ramp, possibly Exit 10, Hepp said.
The accident happened about two miles south of the Ind. 238 exit.
A third driver, Glen D. Jennings, 18, Fountaintown, was driving a 1994 Infiniti north behind Brizendine's car. After the Continental struck Brizendine's car head-on, Jennings' Infiniti struck the Continental.
Jennings was treated for minor injuries and released.
Brizendine worked for Star Financial Bank in Anderson and lived with her parents.
She helped her father, the Rev. Brad Brizendine, at Greenbriar Community Church, playing piano and teaching Sunday school.
When she was just 12, Carrie went on her first mission trip to Haiti.
"She was very driven," Joan Brizendine said. "She saw the need to give of herself. She is solid as a rock."
The family, which includes Carrie's five older brothers, who range in age from 23 to 32, are leaning heavily on their faith, Joan Brizendine said.
"We will survive with his help."
Investigators asked that anyone with information about the crash call the Fishers Police Department at (317) 595-3300.
"We hope with the publicity, someone remembers seeing something and comes forward," Hepp said.
