SHELBY CO. – On Monday, at 2:00 p.m., Indiana State Troopers were requested to assist the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office with a severe crash in the eastbound lanes of I-74 near the 112-mile marker.
Preliminary reports indicated a charter bus with several passengers was involved. Once first responders arrived, they located an adult male unconscious and unresponsive inside a van that had struck the back of the bus. Nobody on the bus was seriously injured; however, the man driving the van was pronounced deceased on the scene. Nine of the passengers on the bus chose to go to the hospital for a check-out. None of those injuries were severe.
Preliminary investigation by Indiana State Police Crash Reconstructionists determined that 52-year-old Jason Huber of Boggstown, Indiana, was driving a Dodge van eastbound on I-74. Traffic had stopped for unknown reasons in the area, and Mr. Huber crashed into the back of the stopped bus. The eastbound lanes of I-74 were closed for approximately two hours while the crash was investigated, and the wrecked vehicles were removed.
Indiana State Police Commercial Vehicle Inspectors, the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office, the Indiana Department of Transportation, the Shelby County Coroner, and the Shelbyville Fire Department were on the scene to assist with the investigation.
The investigation into the circumstances of this crash is ongoing, and no further information is available at this time.
