NEEDMORE – A Mitchell man was injured in a single-vehicle accident on State Road 37 at Trogdon Lane Tuesday afternoon.
The accident was reported at 3:39 p.m.
According to a Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department report, a 1993 GMC Sierra driven by 54-year-old Charles Kidwell, of Mitchell, was traveling south on State Road 37, just south of Trogdon Lane when the vehicle ran off the right side of the roadway and struck a tree and bushes.
Kidwell suffered a severe head injury and was airlifted via a medical helicopter to Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis.
Assisting at the scene was Marshall and Oolitic Volunteer Fire Departments, an IU LifeLine ambulance, and Bedford Fire Department extrication.
