BEAVER DAM — Several people were hurt, one critically, in a two-vehicle crash several miles south of Sevastopol Saturday night in southern Kosciusko County.

Mentone Firefighters and EMS personnel were called by county dispatchers at 7:37 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22, to respond to a personal injury accident with possible entrapment. The dispatchers told emergency personnel that an officer at the scene said a female in one of the vehicles was not breathing.

A white Chevrolet Tahoe with a male and female occupant, as well as an infant were traveling southbound on CR 1000W when a gray Ford sedan driven by a male with a female passenger in the front seat pulled into the SUV’s path. The male occupant of the Tahoe was up and walking around the scene, as well as the female. Holding the infant boy in his arms, who appeared unhurt, the male occupant said that he did not have any time to avoid the collision, which occurred when the Tahoe struck the passenger’s side door of the gray Ford.

“I just said ‘hold on,” he recalled.

As a result of the collision, the white SUV lost a tire and rim into the middle of the road, spun around and came to rest south of the intersection on the west side of the road. The Ford continued west into a soybean field. The male driver of the Ford was able to exit the vehicle, but the female was unresponsive at the scene.

Helicopter support was called in to transport the woman to a nearby hospital. It is not known whether the male driver of the Ford was also transported via helicopter. Personnel at the scene reported the helicopter airborne at 8:13 p.m.

Responding to the scene were multiple emergency services personnel, including Mentone police, fire department and EMS, Indiana State Police, Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department and Claypool Police Department as well as the Burket Fire Department.