A Ball State University department chairwoman and a senior were injured in an accident Monday night around 10 p.m. while returning from Indianapolis, according to police.
Christine Shea, Department of Modern Languages and Classics chairwoman, and senior Cass Zamora were hit head-on by a Cadillac driving in the wrong lane on Highway 32 between Daleville and Yorktown, Deputy Aaron Pressnall, Yorktown police officer, said. The driver was 16-year-old Deandrey Wilkins from Anderson, Pressnall said.
Shea and Zamora were taken to Ball Memorial Hospital. Shea was still in the hospital Tuesday night, hospital officials said, and was expected to remain for several days, Zamora said. Shea was fitted with a supportive neck halo Tuesday, but Zamora said she did not know Shea's injuries. Zamora said she knew Shea was sitting up and reading.
Zamora was released from the hospital, but said she may have fractured her foot.
Wilkins had no apparent injuries and did not go to the hospital because his father signed a waiver at the scene of the accident, Pressnall said.
The accident occurred between South County Road 300 and Council Street, Presnell said. Zamora said she was driving Shea and herself back from Indianapolis in Shea's Honda Civic after seeing the movie "Dreamgirls."
"We came to a hill on [Highway] 32, and there was a car in our lane, and it just hit us head-on," Zamora said.
Pressnell said Wilkins was in a no-passing zone when the accident happened, and neither driver had been drinking. Both cars were totaled, he said.
"It is completely decimated," Zamora said. "It is just gone, but it held up really good. I probably could have gotten out of the car on my own, but [Shea] was pinned under the dash."
The roads were wet, but not snowy, at the time of the accident, Pressnell said. However, while there are sometimes problems along Highway 32 when the roads are wet, he said, the weather did not factor into the accident.
"There's quite a few curves on that strech from Yorktown to Daleville and when there are bad conditions there are quite a few accidents on that stretch," he said.
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