4 people, including 3 children, injured in Wax Road crash

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Four people, including three children, have been injured in a single-vehicle accident on Wax Road.

Monday night at approximately 6:45, Grayson County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Fred Norder, the Wax Fire Department, Grayson County Emergency Management Director Tony Willen, and Grayson and Hart County EMS responded to the accident at 7198 Wax Road.

Upon arriving, first responders found that the driver of the 2000 Chevrolet Suburban, 30-year-old Danielle Harris, of Louisville, was trapped inside the vehicle after running off the road and jumping a drainage ditch, before striking an embankment head-on.

According to police, Harris, who appeared to suffer multiple broken bones, and two small children, a one-year-old girl and six-year-old boy, were unrestrained at the time of the accident. The one-year-old girl was secured in a car seat but the seat was not strapped into the vehicle, essentially making the seat a projectile as the Chevy struck the embankment. A 12-year-old boy, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, was wearing a seat belt at the time of the wreck.

Wax Fire Chief David Strader said the department’s newly purchased “jaws of life” extraction equipment had to be utilized to free Harris, who bent the steering wheel nearly to the dashboard upon impact.

She was transported to Twin Lakes Regional Medical Center before being airlifted to an Evansville, Indiana hospital (the medical helicopter could not fly to Louisville because of bad weather). The three children were transported to Twin Lakes Regional Medical Center suffering from a variety of non-life threatening injuries.

There were also two dogs in the vehicle, with both animals suffering apparently minor injuries. Grayson County Animal Control was contacted and took possession of the dogs.

The Chevy, according to first responders, was leaking fluids into an adjacent pond the vehicle nearly entered. Willen was contacted and arrived on scene.

The investigation into the crash continues.

By Ken Howlett, News Director

Contact Ken at ken@k105.com or 270-259-6000