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Five people were injured, including a teen-aged boy airlifted in serious condition, after a church van carrying basketball players rolled over in Gary, officials said.
The boy was thrown from the van when it veered off the northbound ramp to Gary Avenue around 9 p.m. Thursday, according to Patti Van Til, a spokeswoman for the Lake County sheriff's office. The boy was airlifted to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, she said.
Four others were taken by ambulance to St. Catherine Hospital in East Chicago with less serious injuries, she said. Seven others were in the van, and many of them suffered minor bumps and bruises, Van Til said.
The van was carrying members of the City Baptist Schools basketball team in Hammond, church spokesman Eddie Wilson told the Northwest Indiana Times.
They were playing in a tournament at Hyles-Anderson College in St. John Township and were out getting something to eat, Wilson told the paper. The van was headed back toward the college campus when the accident happened, he said.
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