Two people were transported to area hospitals this morning in serious condition after a two-vehicle collision. Kosciusko County Sheriff's Department deputies and emergency personnel responded at approximately 5:48 a.m. today to a 911 call of a head-on crash on CR 1350N near CR 75W, according to a news release from KCSD. Officers and Milford firemen arrived and found at black 2009 GMC pickup truck had been struck head-on by a green 2006 Jeep. Firefighters extracted Sarah E. Owens, 31, Milford, from her vehicle and she was airlifted from the scene and taken to Lutheran Hospital, Fort Wayne, in serious condition with a leg injury and facial lacerations. The driver of the other vehicle, Mervin F. Etsinger Jr. 60, New Paris, was transported to Goshen General Hospital in serious condition with a severe arm injury. A preliminary investigation into the crash by KCSD deputies determined that Owens was westbound on CR 1350N when her vehicle began to skid on the ice-covered roadway and crossed the center line. Owens’ vehicle struck the pickup driven by Etsinger, who had been traveling east.
