Three vehicle crash on State Road 46 hospitalizes two people

Photo courtesy of Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Department.

Two people were flown to Indianapolis hospitals after a head-on crash Monday morning near the Hartsville curves. Judy Jackson, spokeswoman for the Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Department, says that deputies were called to the 19000 block of State Road 46 East at 9:53 a.m.

Jackson says that three vehicles were involved in the crash and there were entrapment in two of them. Upon arrival, deputies found 28-year-old Micheal Leszcynski, of Columbus, entrapped in a pickup truck. Another man, 48-year-old August Kinker, of Greensburg, was entrapped in a SUV. Both men were freed from the vehicles by firefighters.

Leszynski was transported by Lifeline to Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis and Kinker was transported by Stat-Flight to St Francis Hospital in Indianapolis. A third driver, 32-year-old Gregory Hart, of Greensburg, was not injured.

State Road 46 was closed for approximately three hours while the accident was being investigated. Jackson says the investigation into the crash is ongoing.