Three people were injured in Jennings County Sunday when a golf cart struck a van.

According to the Jennings County Sheriff’s Department, deputies were called to the intersection of County Roads 700W and 300N in Geneva Township at about 2 p.m. Sunday afternoon. According to investigators, the golf cart was traveling northbound, failed to stop at the intersection and struck an eastbound van.

A juvenile on the golf cart was flown by Stat-Flight helicopter to IU Riley Hospital and a man on the cart was flown to IU Methodist Hospital, both with critical injuries. A second man on the golf cart was taken to St. Vincent Jennings Hospital.

The names of the victims have not yet been released and the accident remains under investigation.

Bartholomew Health Department and Windrose Health Network are partnering to offer free COVID-19 testing starting today at the health department.

Dates and times may vary with evening and Saturday appointments available. Testing will be available to all members of the public regardless of symptoms. Children as young as 2 can be tested with parental consent.

Dr. Brian Niedbalski, the Bartholomew County Health officer, urges anyone to get tested who has symptoms of COVID-19 or who have had close contact with someone who tested positive.

The tests will be given at the health department’s nursing division, at 2765 Foxpointe Drive Suite B. Windrose Health Network will begin testing later this month at its facilities in Edinburgh and in Hope.

This testing is being made possible through a grant from the Indiana Department of Health. All the testing supplies and equipment, including test kits, personal protective equipment, sanitizer and the platform for registration and data management, are provided through the grant. The grant continues through June 30th and is renewable.

You can get more information by calling 812-379-1555 and hitting option 1.

Walk-ins will be welcome during testing times, but to avoid waiting in line, individuals are encouraged to register for an appointment by visiting scheduling.coronavirus.in.gov or by calling the testing site location. You will need proof of Indiana residency such as a state-issued ID, work ID or utility bill.

Two people were injured in a Labor Day crash near Hope.

Emergency crews were called to the crash on State Road 9 and County Road 450N at about 5:05 Monday afternoon.

Bartholomew County deputies say that a van driven by 69-year-old William Jett of Seymour was driving southbound when he had to brake heavily to avoid a crash with a vehicle that was turning westbound onto 450N. His van then spun into the northbound lanes where it was hit by a pickup driven by 45-year-old David Nickerson of Columbus.

Jett was taken to an Indianapolis trauma center by IU Health Lifeline helicopter and Nickerson was taken to Columbus Regional Hospital by CRH paramedics.

The crash is being investigated by Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Department. Hope Volunteer firefighters remained on scene to clean up the site once the investigation was completed.

Sheriff Matt Myers reports the road was closed for about an hour.

Cummins is announcing a collaboration with the Carbon Fiber Technology Facility at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee to produce filters for more than a million masks and respirators per day. Those masks will go to U.S. healthcare facilities.

Cummins has been exploring ways to use its air, fuel, and lube filtration products for heavy-duty engines to support healthcare providers during the pandemic. At the same time, Oak Ridge National Laboratory was searching for ways to scale up production of face masks with equipment used to produce precursor material for carbon fiber production at Cummins.

The two are collaborating on a technology called melt blowing to produce filter media for 9,000 N95 masks per hour.

Before two months ago, Cummins had never produced filter media for face masks. Today the company has shipped material for the production of millions of masks.

You can find more information here.