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Woman killed in crash along I-70 in Indiana after wheel strikes car

In an alert from INDOT, state police said a car rolled off the right side of Interstate 70 westbound, near South Warman Avenue.

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana State Police is investigating after a woman was killed in a crash west of downtown Indianapolis Monday morning.

The crash was reported around 7:45 a.m. Sept. 11. In an alert from INDOT, state police said a car rolled off the side of Interstate 70, near South Warman Avenue, killing one person.

The Marion County Coroner's Office identified the victim as 68-year-old Diana Lynn Phelps.

According to ISP Sgt. John Perrine, a wheel came off of a pickup truck traveling eastbound on I-70, bounced over the median wall and into the westbound lanes before hitting the windshield of a westbound car.

The car that was hit by the wheel then went off the road into a steep ditch, through a fence and stopped on its side approximately 25 feet from a house near Corrill and Wyoming streets.

ISP confirmed Phelps died at the scene.

No lanes of I-70 were closed due to the crash, ISP said, though traffic was moving slowly in the area early Monday.

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