CLARK COUNTY / SCOTT COUNTY, Ind. – The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) announces that construction is anticipated to begin for Safer Drive 65 in late summer 2025. The Safer Drive 65 project will extend an added travel lane along northbound and southbound I-65 from the current end of a third lane in each direction near Blue Lick Road in Clark County.

After a multi-step procurement process, INDOT recently selected the design-build contractor E&B Paving, Inc. and Milestone Contractors Joint Venture for the project. Improvements include added travel lanes and pavement reconstruction from Blue Lick Road in Clark County to State Road 56 in Scott County. These improvements will enhance safety and improve mobility in the area.

The Safer Drive 65 project schedule is being finalized, but construction is anticipated to begin in late summer 2025 with completion currently scheduled for winter 2027.

For more information about the project, please visit www.SaferDrive65.com or follow Safer Drive 65 on Facebook and X.

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Around 2:30 Thursday morning, Austin Police and Scott County deputies contacted ISP after locating a man and a woman near the side of York Road, a rural county road just west of Austin, Indiana. Both individuals were taken to Louisville hospitals for apparent stab and knife wounds. Authorities also observed an unoccupied vehicle nearby. A call to 911 first alerted the police to the possibility of an incident.

Following their initial investigation, ISP Detectives believe the male subject, 22-year-old Nicholas Braydan Atwood, of Vallonia, Indiana, repeatedly stabbed his female companion after the two went driving together in rural southern Indiana. After receiving medical treatment, Atwood was arrested by ISP detectives and is currently held at the Scott County Jail. The female victim remains hospitalized in critical condition.

This is an ongoing investigation, and further charges are possible.

Austin Police and the Scott County Sheriff’s Department assisted ISP detectives in this investigation.

All subjects are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty in court.

SOURCE: Indiana State Police

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