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Two women injured in accidents Thursday and Friday are still in critical condition as of this morning.
A spokeswoman for Lutheran Hospital, Fort Wayne, confirmed Ella Taylor, 59, Warsaw, and Arissa Hammond, 40, Akron, were still in critical condition as of about 9 a.m. today.
Taylor was injured in a two-vehicle crash Thursday evening on Ind. 15 at CR 550S near Claypool. Her silver Toyota was traveling north in the southbound lane when it collided with a red Freightliner with a tanker trailer. The driver of the Freightliner, Markus Dean, 47, Lake Village, was not injured.
Hammond was involved in a Friday morning crash at the intersection of Ind. 25 and CR 100S near Warsaw.
According to the Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department report, Jaden Biddle 21, Warsaw, was traveling south on Ind. 25 in a Chevy Tahoe when Hammond entered the intersection at CR 100S going west in her Ford Escort. Evidence at the scene indicates Hammond failed to yield the right of way to Biddle.
Biddle was not injured.
