Police say a CRV hit a stopped tanker truck on I-69 near State Road 38 Monday afternoon, and a local man is dead as a result of that crash.  Indiana State Police identify the victim as Roscoe Murray, 49, from Fishers.   The empty tanker was stopped in traffic for an INDOT construction zone.

The driver of the semi, Dereon Bond, 44, from Decatur, Illinois,. was transported to St. Vincent’s Hospital in Anderson with minor, non-life threatening injuries.  The preliminary investigation by Troopers Justin Beamon and Coley McCutcheon determined that Murray was accelerating down the ramp from MLK Blvd. to get onto I-69 south bound, when he failed to see the stopped traffic ahead.

The crash had I-69 south-bound closed for nearly 3 hours at the 222 mile marker as troopers investigated the crash and crews worked to clear the roadway.