Looking Back – January 2

2008

A three-car crash on Interstate 65 sent five people to Columbus Regional Hospital and closed a southbound lane for about an hour after a Virginia driver hit a patch of ice and spun into the median.

1993

Despite roadblocks around the county, authorities made only four alcohol-related New Year’s arrests compared to 11 during the celebrations a year earlier.

1968

Eleven-year-old John Hodson used what he learned as a Boy Scout to successfully help 7-year-old Dan Patton to safety after the younger child fell through a hole in the ice on a pond in Fairlawn Addition.