COLUMBUS Ind. — Winter weather made a surprise appearance Tuesday morning and left a slew of accidents as a result. Meteorologists say an arctic air mass dipped into the region and brought as much as three inches of snow to the area.
Johnson County Sheriff Doug Cox says his deputies investigated two slide offs, 15 property damage accidents and two personal injury crashes. The Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Department reported 23 crashes between 6 and 11 a.m., and the state police were kept busy with interstate crashes. No serious injuries were reported.
In Columbus, a school bus rear ended another vehicle at 25th Street and U.S. 31 while trying trying to stop for a fire truck passing through the intersection. The accident happened around 11 a.m., and there were no students on the bus and no injuries reported.
Private contractors had to rush to outfit equipment to handle the snow fall. Business owners, schools and apartment communities scrambled to make walking surfaces safe.
