SEYMOUR, Ind. — An Indianapolis woman was hit and killed by a driver in a box truck while standing outside her car after it broke down on Interstate 65 in Jackson County Sunday night.
Erika Jimenez, 35, was driving south on I-65 near the 51-mile marker, which is just north of the Seymour exit, when investigators said her car broke down, stopping in the right lane of I-65.
Jimenez got out of her car and was standing near it at around 11 p.m. when a driver in a Dodge box truck hit her and her car. Indiana State Police said Jimenez was pronounced dead at the scene. The other driver was not injured.
Traffic on I-65 south was affected for nearly five hours as troopers with the Indiana State Police-Versailles District Crash Reconstruction Team investigated the crash.
