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Last updated on Tuesday, August 16, 2016
(DAVIESS CO.) - An accident at the U.S. 50 and Ind. 57 bypass left one man seriously injured and landed another male in jail after interfering at the scene.
According to a Daviess County Police the accident happened Monday night at 5:29 p.m.
According to police, 36-year-old Fredrick Allen Wagner, of Vincennes, was traveling south on Ind. 57 when he ran a red light and the front of his Ford Ranger clipped the underneath side of a dump bed of a Traylor Fertilizer truck driven by 66-year-old Raymond Kemp, of Montgomery.
Wagner was delivering pizza's for Papa Johns at the time of the crash.
Wagner suffered serious hip and leg injures. Kemp was not injured
Wagner had to be freed from the wreckage and was then flown from the crash site by helicopter to Deaconess Hospital in Evansville.
While working the accident officers were approached by 23-year-old Fernando Coronado, of Westfield saying he needed officers to call 911 he needed police.
A sheriff's dispatcher who was at the scene with the fire department and who was fluent in Spanish, translated the man's questions, and it was determined Coronado was intoxicated. He was arrested on a charge of public intoxication and resisting/interfering with police. He was taken by ambulance to Daviess County Community Hospital for a medical evaluation because of his level of intoxication.
The westbound lane of U.S. 50 was closed for about two hours while police worked and the wreckage was cleared.
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