Crash closes U.S. 56; sends
2 to hospital
A rear-end crash on U.S. 56 Tuesday near Hillsboro was violent enough that both lanes of the highway were blocked and both victims were transported to the hospital.
Hillsboro city worker Chris Brewer, 22, of 129 W. Santa Fe St., Marion, stopped a Dodge 1500 truck eastbound on U.S. 56 to turn left onto Indigo Road. Taylor England, 17, of 125 Arrowhead Road, Inman, rammed into the back of the truck with enough force to spin her Kia Optima into the westbound lane.
The driver quarter panel of the Kia was stripped to its metallic frame and the front bumper was torn off. The exhaust pipe of the truck was underneath the vehicle after the crash.
Brewer and England were taken to Hillsboro Community Hospital.
“They didn’t look bad,” Marion County Sheriff’s Officer Mike Ottensmeier.
The sheriff’s office, Hillsboro Police Department, and Hillsboro Fire Department responded to the accident.
“This is the cost of living in rural America,” Ottensmeier said, “somebody not paying attention to what was happening.”
Last modified Aug. 4, 2010