By
George Price
Aaron & Sharon Goens
Anderson,
Indiana – Last Saturday night roughly 3,000 people came
together for one great benefit for two young men who
lost their lives on I69 last February. The benefit was
held for the families of Ryan A. Phillips, 28, Anderson
and Dustin R. Goettman, 27, Anderson who were great
friends and co-workers.
A friend of
mine, Mark Merritt, had told me about this event and had
invited me to come out to help cover this story. Mark,
what a great story this turned out to be. Not only was
this benefit for the families who lost loved ones much
too early and tragically, but it was as much a
celebration of the lives of two very special people. I
have been to a lot of benefit events in the last few
years but this was very special. You don’t know who to
give the most credit to for what they were doing
Saturday night. Certainly credit needs to be given to
the host’s of the event,
The report from
the Pendleton Post of the Indiana State Police just
after the accident was as follows, “Hamilton County - On
today’s date, 02-03-2009, at approximately 9:45 a.m.,
the Indiana State Police, Pendleton Post, began
receiving calls of a multi-vehicle crash on Interstate
69 south bound approximately two miles south of the
State Road 238 exit (Verizon Music Center).
A Fishers Fire
Department Engine Truck was responding to the scene of a
reported inverted vehicle at the eight mile marker on
southbound Interstate 69. As the Fishers Fire truck was
still southbound approaching the eight mile marker
another southbound vehicle rear ended the fire truck
setting off a chain reaction crash totaling 22 vehicles
and nine semi tractor trailers. The firefighters were
not injured in the crash.
