Four kids – ages 6, 8, 13, 15 – killed when ‘high-on-drugs’ semi driver collides with car in fiery Indiana highway crash
FOUR kids have died after a "high-on-drugs" semitrailer driver crashed into a car in Indiana.
Siblings Anesa Noel Acosta, 15, Quintin Michael McGowan, 13, Brekkin Riley Bruce, 8 and Trentin Beau Bruce, 6, died on Thursday evening, confirmed.
The car was pushed into another semitrailer and burst into flames at around 5.07pm.
A passerby was able to pull the car's driver, Aaron Bruce, 34, from the vehicle and he was taken to an Indianapolis hospital with severe injuries, state police spokesman Sgt John Bowling said.
The semitrailer failed to slow down for traffic that was approaching the construction zone near Cambridge City about 15 miles west of the Indiana-Ohio state line, he said.
The driver of the semi, Corey Withrow, 31, escaped the vehicle with injuries that were non-life-threatening and was taken to hospital.
Withrow was then arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated in a crash causing death, reported.
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In a statement from the State Police, it said the preliminary criminal investigation indicated that drugs were a contributing factor in causing the crash.
Thomas Flaherty, 57, the driver of the other semitrailer that the car was pushed into, was uninjured.
The crash closed the highway’s eastbound lanes for about 12 hours.