A single vehicle crash on I-65 north of Uniontown around 10:30 a.m. last Friday claimed the life of a Georgia man and sent two passengers to Indianapolis area hospitals with serious injuries.
According to Indiana State Police Sgt. Stephen Wheeles, a 2008 Nissan pickup truck, being driven by Jose Uribe, 53, of Winder, Georgia was traveling northbound on I-65 near the 43-mile marker in Jackson County. For an unknown reason, Uribe’s vehicle left the east side of the roadway. The vehicle then came back on the roadway and overturned before coming to rest in the northbound lanes.
Uribe sustained fatal injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene. A passenger in the vehicle, Carmen Uribe, 53, was flown from the scene to an Indianapolis area hospital for treatment of serious injuries. A 17-year-old female passenger was transported to Schneck Medical Center in Seymour before being flown to an Indianapolis hospital for treatment of serious injuries.
The investigation remains ongoing with toxicology results pending, Wheeles said.
The northbound lanes of I-65 were closed for approximately two hours for crash investigation and cleanup. Both northbound and southbound traffic backed up on the interstate prompting motorists to use US 31 to avoid the scene. That resulted in traffic snarls in Uniontown and Crothersville.