Indiana trooper recovering after struck during traffic stop
Posted August 31, 2017 7:00 am
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - An Indiana State Police spokesman says a trooper is recovering a day after he was thrown over a highway guardrail by a crash while he was outside his patrol car checking on a stopped van.
Trooper Ronneal Williams was taken to a hospital in serious condition after the Wednesday morning crash along Interstate 865 in suburban Indianapolis.
Sgt. John Perrine says Williams remained hospitalized Thursday with a broken arm and severe bruises but is doing well.
Perrine says Williams was standing along the passenger side of a van that had stopped on the highway's shoulder when a car driven by a 19-year-old man hit the trooper's car. That impact knocked the patrol car into the van, which hit Williams and sent him over the guardrail.
This photo provided by the Indiana State Police shows the aftermath of a crash along Interstate 865 near Zionsville, Ind., Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, that badly injured Trooper Ronmeal Williams. State police Sgt. John Perrine says Ronmeal was outside his patrol car during a traffic stop on the highway's shoulder when he was hit. (John Perrine/Indiana State Police via AP)
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