Posted on May 4th, 2010
A 23-year-old Mount Pleasant driver crashed into a tree around 11 p.m. last Friday night on 520 Avenue in rural Crawford County, according to police.
The accident occurred about 200 feet west of 250th street. The driver and his three passengers were headed eastbound on 520 Avenue when he lost control of the car where the road surface changed from asphalt to gravel. Police believe that the man was driving was a high rate of speed, which may have been the cause behind this car accident.
The 2001 Chevrolet Camaro veered off the road and slammed into a tree, ejecting the driver through the windshield. Emergency personnel pronounced him dead at the scene. His passengers were transported to Via Christi and St. John’s Regional Medical Center for head injury treatment.
Posted on April 19th, 2010
According to Dubuque police, an argument between a driver and her passenger led to their car crashing into the median at the 151/61 overpass around 12:38 p.m. last Saturday.
The 23-year-old woman and her male passenger were fighting over whether or not the woman should pull over and let the man out. The woman says she does not remember what started the argument but that she refused to let the man out of the vehicle at that location because “he didn’t know where to go because he was from out of town.”
Over the course of the argument the man grew frustrated and jerked the steering wheel out of the woman’s hands while the vehicle was traveling on the highway, crashing it into the median. The man said he did not realize that this would happen because he did not have a driver’s license and had never driven a car.
Both the man and woman were taken to Finley Hospital nearby and released soon thereafter. The woman suffered a broken ankle and has since filed a complaint against the man for being caused a serious injury by a vehicle.
If you or someone you know has been injured by the negligent actions of another person, or is looking for legal advice on how to pursue a case against someone who has recklessly caused them harm, call the Iowa personal injury attorneys of LaMarca & Landry, P.C., at 877-327-2600.
Posted on April 7th, 2010
The Woodbury County Board of Supervisors has begun to review ways to slow motorists along Stone Avenue in Sioux City, Iowa. Following the paving of a nearby road, there have already been several crashes along Stone Avenue in which drivers have plowed into local residents’ homes.
According to county engineers, a stretch of Stone Avenue is poorly designed, with a sharp corner and difficult to see speed limit sign. Despite the Iowa Department of Transportation reduction of the speed limit near the corner from 55 mph to 35 mph, there have still been a number of accidents.
Board chairman George Boykin of Sioux City promises to improve the safety record along that section of the road by adding more fluorescent, clear signs and possibly additional guard rails.
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Posted on April 2nd, 2010
A central Iowa police officer was injured in a car crash after losing control of his squad car.
The officer passed another officer who was doing a traffic stop when he began to driver erratically. The officer began to swerve in and out of traffic before hitting a car and a safety rail before going down a 40-foot embankment. The officer was transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The cause of the accident is still under investigation at this point.
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Posted on March 26th, 2010
An accident in Iowa City between a car and a truck took the life of an 81-year-old man.
The 81-year-old man was driving in his car and struck the back of a semi-trailer on U.S. 61. The man was attempting to make a left turn into a private drive when he hit the Peterbilt semi-trailer. The man was then transported to the hospital where he later died of injuries suffered in the accident. The driver of the semi-trailer was injured in the accident.
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Posted on March 22nd, 2010
An accident in New Mexico on March 13 killed one Iowa State Student and seriously injured another.
Five students were riding in a car and heading westbound on Interstate 40 when the 18-year-old driver’s car drifted into the median. The driver then overcorrected his vehicle and lost control of the car. The vehicle then flipped over and four passengers were ejected from the car. One of the students was pronounced dead at the scene. The other students were taken to the hospital, three with minor injuries and one with critical injuries.
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Posted on March 17th, 2010
Two people died in a single-vehicle accident on Tuesday afternoon near Lyle.
The accident occurred around 2:08 p.m. on Hwy 218 south of Lyle, near the Minnesota border. The 79-year-old driver of the 2003 Cadillac lost control of the vehicle and ran off the road. The car drove into a ditch, hit a tree, and overturned in a small body of water near the highway. The driver and his 79-year-old passenger, residents of Osage, were killed.
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Posted on March 12th, 2010
An 85-year-old woman was killed in an auto accident. According to police reports, the accident occurred in Conrad.
The woman was apparently driving east when she did not stop at a stop sign and hit a truck. While the truck driver was not injured in the accident, the woman was taken to a nearby hospital, where she later pronounced dead.
If you have lost a loved one in a car accident, contact the Iowa car accident attorneys of LaMarca & Landry, P.C., at 877-327-2600.
Posted on March 12th, 2010
Two women were injured in a four-vehicle accident on Highway 65 in Iowa Falls Wednesday.
According to the Iowa State Patrol, 40 year-old Carrie Luella Cooper and 62 year-old Julia Marie Stewart were taken to Ellsworth Community Hospital with undisclosed injuries shortly after 9 a.m. Wednesday.
Police say the accident occurred when two vehicles were stopped at in the southbound lanes of Highway 65 and a car driven by 35 year-old Kristine M. Stein of Geneva slammed into the rear of Stewart’s Plymouth Voyager van, forcing it into the rear of Cooper’s Chevy blazer.
Stein’s vehicle then collided with a car driven by 33 year-old Iowa Falls-resident Jennifer Lindaman.
Lindaman and Stein were not injured in the crash.
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Posted on March 8th, 2010
On Interstate 29, police responded to an accident involving 28 vehicles near marker 125.
Officials say that blowing snow led to poor visibility on the highway and caused the cars to run into one another. The highway was closed in order to sort through the chaos and clean debris from the accident. Drivers were left stranded on the highway and were bused to local schools in order to get out of the cold. The start of the accident is still under investigation.
Driving in inclement weather can be dangerous and multiple accidents can occur. If you or a loved one has been injured in a auto accident due to someone else’s negligence, contact the Iowa car accident lawyers of LaMarca & Landry, P.C. by calling 877-327-2600.
