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Head-on crash kills 4 people on state highway
LARWILL — A car trying to go past another vehicle in a no-passing zone crashed head-on into a sport-utility vehicle on a northern Indiana highway, killing four people inside the car.
The Whitley County Sheriff’s Department says the Plymouth Neon was northbound on Indiana 5 near the community of Larwill when the crash happened Tuesday afternoon. The car’s male driver and three passengers — a male and two females — all died in the collision with a GMC Yukon SUV.
Authorities did not immediately release the identities of those killed in the crash about 30 miles west of Fort Wayne.
The SUV’s driver was taken to a Fort Wayne hospital with leg injuries.
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