Spring snowstorm blamed for Michigan woman's death

UNDATED - A spring snowstorm that snapped across the northern half of Indiana Monday caused at least one traffic death and sent a jet skidding off an icy runway, authorities said. <br> <br> Daisy G. Heung, 40, of Sturgis, Mich., died shortly before noon when her minivan slid into oncoming traffic on snowy Indiana 120 in Elkhart County, police said. <br> <br> Authorities from Elkhart to Fort Wayne to Lafayette reported dozens of accidents on roads and highways slickened by snow, rain and ice. Most did not involve serious injury. <br> <br> ``People are going slow enough not to get hurt, but too fast for conditions,&#39;&#39; said Sgt. Brett Coppins, a spokesman for the Elkhart Police Department. <br> <br> A small jet carrying six people slid off the side of an icy runway during landing Monday morning at Anderson Municipal Airport, but no one was injured, airport officials said. <br> <br> The MU-3 jet, which belonged to Corporate Flight Services of Smyrna, Ga., was taking four passengers from Memphis, Tenn., to Anderson on business, said David Cravens, the airport&#39;s maintenance director. <br> <br> ``They couldn&#39;t get it stopped in time, so the pilot opted to kick it off to the side rather than go straight off the runway, because he was unfamiliar with what was on the other side,&#39;&#39; Cravens said. <br> <br> Five jackknifed semitrailers slowed traffic in both directions for most of the morning on a 30-mile stretch of Interstate 65 between Ind. 38 and U.S. 24 northwest of Indianapolis, Indiana State Police said. <br> <br> As much as six inches of snow fell in some northern areas by 4 p.m., the National Weather Service said. Areas farther south received rain or sleet. More snow, sleet and freezing rain was forecast for overnight. <br> <br> Isolated power outages were reported in Delaware, Randolph and Grant counties in east central Indiana, and in the Lafayette area. <br> <br> Many schools were unaffected by the storm because students were on spring break.