Local girl, 15, fatally injured in rear-end collision on Ind. 32 east of Muncie
MUNCIE, Ind. — A 15-year-old local girl was fatally injured late Monday afternoon in a rear-end collision on Ind. 32 east of Muncie.
Angel N. Riley died after being taken by ambulance to the emergency department of IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital, according to Delaware County Coroner Gavin Greene.
The coroner said the teen died as a result of "massive trauma."
The two-vehicle crash, at Ind. 32 and Delaware County Road 400-E, was reported to emergency dispatchers at 5:53 p.m.
According to Greene, preliminary reports indicated Riley was one of four occupants in an eastbound vehicle that had reduced its speed before it was struck in the rear by another eastbound vehicle.
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Five other people injured in the crash — three who were in the same vehicle as Riley, and two others who were in the other vehicle — were also taken by ambulance to the Muncie hospital.
An update on their conditions was not available Monday night.
The four-lane state highway was closed to traffic in the wake of the collision. Indiana State Police were investigating the fatality.
In addition to state police and the coroner's office, also responding to the scene were the Delaware County Emergency Management Agency, the Delaware County Sheriff's Department and firefighters from the Liberty-Perry volunteer department.
Monday's crash came less than 24 hours after a 19-year-old Muncie man was fatally injured in a one-car crash near Farmland in Randolph County.
On April 27, a pregnant Muncie woman and the child she was carrying were fatally injured in another rear-end collision on Ind. 32 in Liberty Township, that one near Truitt Road.
Douglas Walker is a news reporter at The Star Press. Contact him at 765-213-5851 or at dwalker@muncie.gannett.com.
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