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A Florida woman was in critical condition Thursday night after she drove her car into the path of a tractor-trailer rig on Interstate 69 in Huntington County, prompting officials to close the highway.
The crash occurred at 5:47 p.m. near the Indiana 5 exit near Warren, state police said.
Gina N. Imbrunone, 21, of Jacksonville, Fla., was northbound on I-69 when her 2006 Nissan traveled across the median and struck a southbound tractor-trailer rig on its rear tandem axle, completely detaching it from the trailer, police said.
Imbrunone was initially pinned in the vehicle and had to be extracated. She was flown to Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne where she was in critical but stable condition. A passenger in her vehicle, Katie L. Imbrunone, 24, of Daphne, Ala., was taken by ambulance to Parkview, where she was treated and released.
The driver of the rig, Nelson H. Huff II, 63, of Dallas, was not injured.
Parts of I-69 were closed for about 90 minutes, state police said.
The southbound lanes were closed for most of the duration, although the northbound lanes were closed for a time as well, police said.
