Accident stalls traffic on highway 45/46

As students returned to town from Easter weekend, a three-car accident temporarily shut down Indiana Highway 45/46 Sunday evening. Numerous police cars, ambulances and rescue trucks arrived at the scene of a car flipped on its side. The highway was blocked off from near North Martha Street to Dunn Street. \nAt press time, the accident report had not yet been released, but Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Alan Pointer said there were no serious injuries.\n"Nobody was hurt, not seriously anyway," Pointer said. "I know it involved three cars and it was a rear-end accident. One car was hit from behind and landed on its side."\nThe driver of the flipped car asked that his name be withheld, but said he didn't think he was doing anything wrong.\n"I really thought I had enough time to stop, but they told me I should've stopped," he said. "Nobody was hurt though."\nThe flipped car was turned back over and all three cars were removed from the scene of the accident. \nSenior Steve Brennan and his friend were driving when the accident occurred and walked to the Church of Christ parking lot to observe.\n"We were driving and saw the cars start to back up," Brennan said. "When we went to watch, we saw the cops show up and the car sitting on its side. I just hope nobody got hurt."\n-- Contact staff writer Mallory Simon at mgsimon@indiana.edu.