Local News - Traffic & Road Closures
We gave the road roulette wheel a hefty spin for this weekend, and low and behold it landed on “south side” for like the thousandth time this construction season. Johnson County to downtown drivers need to polish off their U.S. 31 boots and dust off their special rerouting underwear, because construction season is still on. […]
(INDIANAPOLIS) – You’ve heard those ads telling you to slow down in work zones. Legislators are discussing adding automatic cameras to catch you. There are hefty fines for speeding in a work zone — 300 dollars for a first time, up to a thousand for repeat offenders, and up to five-thousand for reckless driving. But […]
STATEWIDE — It’s been one of the busiest years ever for the construction workers with the Indiana Department of Transportation. Throughout the state, INDOT had 1,100 projects scheduled for the 2019 construction season. “I-70 and 465, traffic in the mornings with construction is just a nightmare. There are a lot of times I had to […]
LANDESS, Ind. — A Marion man was killed in a single-vehicle crash early Saturday morning in Grant County. Indiana State Police say the crash happened around 2 a.m. on Grant County Road 450 North near Grant County Road 700 East. That’s near Landess. Police say, Shad Hix, 38, of Marion, was driving a 2002 Ford […]
INDIANAPOLIS — Metro police say one person died in a single-vehicle crash overnight. Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officer Aaron Hamer said the crash happened around 2:30 a.m. in the 6500 block of Binford Boulevard. When officers arrived they found a vehicle had crashed into a ditch in the area. The driver of the vehicle was […]
INDIANAPOLIS — One person has died after a fiery car crash overnight, Indianapolis authorities said. The crash happened around 1 a.m. when a driver, who was driving a Chevy Camaro northbound near the 2400 block of Madison Avenue at a high rate of speed, crashed into the median. Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said the driver […]
INDIANAPOLIS — One man died when a dump truck rolled over during a crash on the city’s south side, according to Indiana State Police. The crash happened just before 8 a.m. on eastbound I-465 at mile marker 2.2 at the US 31 South ramp. State police dispatchers confirmed one person died in the crash. According to authorities, […]
(Photo Credit: WISH TV) Prepare yourselves, downtown commuters. We’re losing a key interchange on I-70 this Monday, and the closure lands smack dab in the middle of rush hour while lasting a whole week. The heavily travelled ramps to and from I-70 and Meridian St. will close Monday morning (9/23) at 4am so crews can […]
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Work will begin Monday on the rehabilitation of South Mitthoeffer Road on the city’s east side, the Indianapolis Department of Public Works said Thursday. The work will begin after the Monday morning rush hour on the 1.4-mile stretch between East Washington and East Prospect streets in Warren Township. That’s just south of Washington Square […]
GREENFIELD, Ind. — Parts of eastbound I-70 were temporarily closed early Saturday afternoon for construction work, according to Indiana Department of Transportation. INDOT says another temporary closure will happen at 4 p.m. Saturday. The closure will be near State Road 9 and it will last about two hours.