All intersections are back open after a train derailment in Scottsburg shut down many intersections in the town for a few hours Saturday morning. Tracks are expected to be open by midday today. 

8 or 9 cars of the CSX train derailed around 8:30 a.m., bringing the carrier to a halt  as the engine got to the north end of Scottsburg. The railroad runs through the center of town and created a traffic problem as the accident was blocking State Road 56 and several other smaller roads.

There were no reports of power lines damaged. No physical injuries have been reported and there is no reported cause for the derailment.

The area affected is near Lake Iola.

The train was about 70 cars long and stretched south, blocking all intersections starting at Owen Street until it was just shy of the Lover’s Lane intersection, which remained open to traffic.

Those roads are all passable now, as crews cleared the stranded train cars by hooking them to other engines to move them.

The derailed cars, which were at the front of the train, are near Lake Lola in the William H. Graham Park and have not yet been cleared.

David Murphy, Scott County EMA Director, said there were no injuries or hazardous situations because of the derailment. The train was carrying automobiles.

Multiple agencies have launched an investigation into what caused the incident. Murphy said they will first determine if it was a mechanical error or something else was to blame.

It is unclear how long it will take crews to remove the remaining wreckage. “Possibly weeks,” said Murphy. “The magnitude of what we’re dealing with here with the number of cars, it will take some time.”

Yesterday evening, Trooper Tracy Spencer of the Indiana State Police Post at Sellersburg stopped to assist what appeared to be simply, a broke down motorist.

However, the traffic stop yielded an arrest for a stolen vehicle and meth. 

The vehicle, a black 2010 Ford Taurus, was parked on the emergency lane of Interstate #65 at the 12.0 Mile Marker South Bound in Clark County. When he spoke to the occupants, a female in the driver’s seat and a male subject outside of the car, he was informed they were out of gas and needed assistance.

Trooper Spencer ran a check on the vehicle and it returned stolen out of Louisville, KY.

The male subject, who was identified as Richard F. Shellman, 34, from Cedar Wood Drive in Louisville, KY, was placed into custody.

When Trooper Spencer attempted to gain the proper identity of the female, she claimed she did not have an identification card or driver’s license with her. She gave false information about her identity and it was later learned her name was Janice Marie Gonzalez, 26, from Powell Drive in Louisville, KY.

After she was placed into custody, a search of the vehicle yielded approximately 2.2 ounces of Methamphetamine. 

Shellman and Gonzalez were incarcerated at the Clark County Jail. During a detailed search of Janice M. Gonzalez and her property at the Clark County Jail, a digital scale and two blue pills, alleged prescription pills, were located. 
 
Gonzalez was charged with Dealing in Methamphetamine Over 3 Grams, Possession of Methamphetamine Over 3 Grams, Maintaining a Common Nuisance, Possession of a Stolen Vehicle, Possession of a Controlled Substance, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and False Informing. 

Shellman was charged with Possession of a Stolen Vehicle.