No charges will be filed in Saturday U.S. 30 crash

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Updated: February 21, 2012 8:24AM

VALPARAISO — No charges will be filed following Saturday morning’s fiery crash on U.S. 30 that critically injured a 35-year-old woman and her 6-year-old daughter, police said Wednesday.

Ana Pina of South Bend and her daughter were flown to Chicago area hospitals to be treated for severe burns and other injuries

Pina remains in critical condition at Loyola University Health System.

Police said the girl’s condition is unknown; she is at Comers Children’s Hospital at the University of Chicago.

The 6-year-old girl’s twin brother and Pina’s mother, who also were passengers, were treated at St. Mary Medical Center for minor injuries.

The crash happened in Washington Township, east of County Road 325E, when a 1997 Chevrolet pickup driven by John Buibish, 67, of Grovertown, struck the back of Pina’s westbound 2000 Jeep Cherokee. The Jeep immediately caught fire.

In the eastbound lanes, Patriot Guardsmen were escorting the body of U.S. Army Spc. Robert Tauteris Jr., who died in Afghanistan, and the guardsmen pulled the four family members out of the Jeep. They used snow to extinguished the flames on the victims.

Several of the rescuers were treated for smoke inhalation and minor burns. The other driver, Buibish, suffered a nose bleed from his air bag deploying.