SHELBY COUNTY, Indiana — Police are investigating after a 23-year-old man was killed in a crash in Shelby County Monday afternoon.
The crash happened around 3 p.m. Jan. 29 in the 1000 block of State Road 9, north of State Road 252, roughly 10 miles south of Shelbyville.
Witnesses told Shelby County sheriff's deputies that a Jeep Liberty, driven by 23-year-old Johnathon May, of Shelbyville, was going southbound on State Road 9 when it crossed the center line and crashed into a tractor-trailer hauling grain in the northbound lane.
Medics pronounced May dead at the scene.
The 65-year-old tractor-trailer driver and a 22-year-old passenger in the Jeep Liberty were both taken to hospitals. Their conditions are not known at this time.
All lanes of State Road 9 were closed between 1000 South and State Road 252 for several hours during the investigation.
