Traffic was backed up during the busiest leaf-viewing weekend in Nashville on Nov. 3 because of a three-vehicle crash on State Road 46 East at Snyder Road. It occurred while police were working another crash near the same intersection.

Lt. Mike Moore with the Brown County Sheriff’s Department was working a property-damage crash when he heard the other crash happen. He walked over to the three vehicles after hearing the squeal of tires on a truck and seeing it hit the rear of a van. That van was then shoved into the rear of another parked truck near the first crash scene.

The driver of the first truck, Chase Simpson, 19, of Bloomington, was semi-conscious and was unable to answer any of Moore’s questions. Simpson’s passenger told Moore she thought he had hit his head and she was holding him up to keep him from falling over in the driver’s seat.

The driver of the van, Cynthia Schrunder, 21, of Indianapolis, told Moore that she was stopping for the stopped traffic in front of her. She said while she was stopping, Simpson’s truck hit her in the rear.

The impact caused her to hit the truck in front of her. The driver of that truck, Charles Swartz, 73, of Scottsburg, said he was stopped in traffic when he was rear-ended.

Simpson was taken to Columbus Regional Hospital for his head injury.

A 49-year-old passenger in Schrunder’s van was treated at the scene for back pain, the report states.

All drivers and passengers mentioned in the report were wearing seat belts.