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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, 17, 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 Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood.
The boy is suffering from bleeding in the brain and a rib fracture, according to Eddie Wilson, a spokesman for the First Baptist Church.
Another boy, 15, suffered head trauma and was taken to Comer's Children's Hospital, Wilson said. The driver of the van, a teacher at the church's school, suffered a fractured skull and was stable at St. Catherine's Hospital in East Chicago, Ind., Wilson said.
Otheres in the van suffered bumps and bruises, officials said.
The van was carrying members of the church school's basketball team. They had been playing in a tournament at Hyles-Anderson College in St. John Township and were out getting something to eat, Wilson said.
The van was headed back toward the college campus when the accident happened, he said.
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