Decatur County Head-On Crash Injures Three, April Blotter Reveals

A head-on collision on State Road 3 near County Road 300 North in northern Decatur County on Sunday night required two medical helicopters, drew five responding agencies, and left three people injured, according to the Decatur County Sheriff's Office.

The crash involved a 2001 Chevy Blazer driven by 66-year-old William Gardner of Greensburg and a 2023 Subaru Crosstrek driven by 59-year-old Denise Johnson of Oldenburg. The collision was serious enough that Decatur County EMS called in air support, with one helicopter setting down in the North Decatur High School parking lot and a second transporting a patient from Decatur County Memorial Hospital. The Decatur County Sheriff's Office, Greensburg Police Department, Greensburg Fire Department, and the Letts and Clarksburg volunteer fire departments all responded to the scene.

State Road 3 through northern Decatur County has been the site of multiple serious crashes over the years. The corridor's mix of rural speed limits, limited lighting, and through-traffic volume makes it one of the county's more consistently hazardous stretches, a pattern the Sheriff's Office is positioned to quantify if asked for year-to-date crash and injury totals for the SR-3 corridor and whether lane departure, speed, or impairment is emerging as the primary contributing factor in 2026.

Sunday night's collision led the April 6 blotter, but the week's log covered a broader cross-section of county public-safety activity. Deputies processed arrests at the Decatur County Detention Center, responded to additional motor-vehicle collisions both with and without injuries, conducted welfare checks, handled civil complaints, and provided first-responder assistance to households and motorists alongside county fire departments.

Anyone with information about the SR-3 crash or any other incident in the blotter can contact the Decatur County Sheriff's Office tip line or the agency's records division. For families of those injured, the public blotter typically represents the first official notice that an incident occurred; follow-up press releases or charging documents with additional details on conditions and charges are usually issued in the days that follow.