Indiana saw a more than an 8 percent increase in fatal car crashes last year, despite more people staying at home, and the increase was significantly larger in Hamilton and Marion counties.

Hoosiers likely won't be getting speeding tickets from highway speed cameras anytime soon. That's after House Bill 1465 to create a pilot program for such cameras is all but dead this session.

The measure would allow speeding tickets for drivers caught by the cameras going at least 12 miles per hour over the limit.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety says the systems could prevent crashes that happen when trucks don't stop for slower or stopped traffic in freeway construction zones and is calling on the federal government to require the systems on new large trucks.

The agency said the "intersection conflict warning systems" are being put in place to alert drivers of traffic at two-way, stop sign-controlled intersections.

The Indianapolis Fire Department said the fire engine was responding to reported possible fire Sunday morning when a woman driving a silver 2002 Jeep Liberty collided with it on the city's south side.

A truck driver was sentenced Monday to 9 years in prison for causing a highway construction zone crash in Indianapolis that killed a woman and her 18-month-old twin daughters.

Efforts in recent years to legalize the use of traffic cameras havent gotten far in the General Assembly. Indiana highway work zone crashes doubled in the last six years, heading into 2019.

Prosecutors have filed reckless homicide charges against a semi driver for a highway construction zone crash in Indianapolis that killed a woman and her 18-month-old twin daughters.

Semis allow Indiana State Police troopers a larger viewpoint when searching for traffic violations.