Deadly Indiana Crash

Police and fire personnel investigate the scene of a multiple vehicle accident on the Indiana Toll Road near Bristol, Ind., Thursday, April 26, 2007. Police say eight people died, five in one vehicle (not shown), near a rain-drenched construction zone on the Indiana Toll Road.

Police and fire personnel continue to investigate the scene of a multiple vehicle accident on the Indiana Toll Road near Bristol, Ind. Thursday, April 26, 2007. Police say eight people died, five in one vehicle, near a rain-drenched construction zone on the Indiana Toll Road.

At least eight people were killed in a multi-vehicle crash on the Indiana Toll Road Thursday April 26, 2007, near Bristol, Ind. The crash started around 6:45 a.m. on a rainy stretch of the road. The westbound lanes were narrowing to one for bridge construction about a mile and a half ahead, and traffic had come to a standstill in the right lane as traffic merged into the left.

At least eight people were killed in a multi-vehicle crash on the Indiana Toll Road Thursday April 26, 2007, near Bristol, Ind. It wasn't clear why a tractor-trailer driver did not slow down, police said. The semi rear-ended one vehicle, starting a chain reaction involving two other tractor-trailers and four other passenger vehicles.

Police and fire personnel continue to investigate the scene of a multiple vehicle accident on the Indiana Toll Road near Bristol, Ind. Thursday, April 26, 2007. Police say eight people died, five in one vehicle, near a rain-drenched construction zone on the road. Police said warning signs had been posted along the highway up to three miles from the construction site.

Police and fire personnel investigate the scene of a multiple vehicle accident on the Indiana Toll Road near Bristol, Ind., Thursday, April 26, 2007. Police say eight people died, five in one vehicle, near a rain-drenched construction zone on the Indiana Toll Road.

A highway pileup killed at least eight people Thursday, April 26, 2007, on a rainy stretch of the Indiana Toll Road near Bristol, Ind., State Police said. The deaths included five people in a single vehicle. Four of the victims were Amish residents of nearby LaGrange County the local fire chief said.

Cars and trucks in the eastbound lane of the Indiana Toll Road move slowly through an area where fire personnel investigate the scene of a multiple vehicle accident in the westbound lanes on the Toll Road near Bristol, Ind., Thursday, April 26, 2007. Hours after the crash, hazardous materials workers were working to clean up diesel fuel that stood in puddles or was streaming along the roadway from the damaged semis.