TIPPECANOE COUNTY, Ind. – One driver is dead after a crash involving three semi trucks in Indiana.
According to a release by the Indiana State Police (ISP), the crash occurred on Tuesday afternoon at approximately 3:45 p.m. Indiana State Police says it responded to a three-vehicle fatal crash involving commercial motor vehicles on Interstate 65 southbound near the 176 mile marker.
ISP said its preliminary investigation determined that a 2023 Freightliner semi truck and trailer was traveling southbound on Interstate 65. At the same time, a 2022 Peterbilt semi truck and trailer and a 2025 Freightliner semi truck and trailer were slowed/stopped in traffic due to a separate crash. For reasons that remain under investigation, the 2023 Freightliner failed to slow for the backed up traffic and struck the two semi trucks.The previous crash was a single-vehicle fatality that occurred a half hour earlier…