I-465E reopened six hours after fiery semi crash

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - All lanes of eastbound I-465 at Keystone Avenue have been reopened after a fiery semi truck crash injured a Fishers man Tuesday afternoon.

State Police say 76-year-old Louis King Jr., of Fishers, struck a concrete divider at the Keystone Avenue exit just after 2 p.m. The collision caused his vehicle to spin out of control and clip an SUV.

According to police, both vehicles struck a semi truck causing the semi to scrape along the concrete barriers, immediately igniting its fuel tank. The tank erupted into flames causing a massive fire.

The driver of the semi, Aleixandre Radis, of Crown Point, says he saw the car and SUV headed toward him but there was nothing he could do to avoid hitting them.

“It was so quick they hit each other. I was in the other lane. They bumped into each other, squeezed into my lane and I couldn’t avoid it,” said Radis.

While a construction zone stretches along the area of I-465, First Sgt. Dave Bursten with the Indiana State Police says construction had nothing to do with the crash.

“This is not a construction site crash, this is a driver error -- inattentive unsafe lane movement crash,” said Bursten.

King was transported to Community Hospital North for non-life threatening injuries, police say.

No other drivers were injured in the crash.

All I-465 eastbound lanes were shut down for over six hours while crews repaired the stretch of road damaged in the fire.