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Cedar Falls police report that a 26-year-old woman was killed in a single-vehicle crash last Saturday morning.
The incident occurred Saturday morning as the 25-year-old driver of the truck that the 26-year-old woman was riding as a passenger in lost control of the vehicle. The truck they were in then ran off the road and slammed into a retaining wall before hitting a parked car.
The woman was killed immediately, while the 25-year-old man was taken to a local hospital.
The man responsible for the death of a Cedar Rapids bicyclist in a fatal accident last July turned himself in to authorities this week.
An arrest warrant was issued for the driver behind the hit-and-run after police could not locate him at several addresses. Cedar Rapids police say that the man turned himself in after his friend saw a news report about the warrant and told him about it.
He has been charged with failure to yield and having no insurance in his involvement in the July 29 accident. The crash occurred on C Street SW and left the woman cyclist with serious head injuries, from which she died four days later in hospital care.
According to the Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Department, two cousins from western Iowa were killed Saturday in a single-vehicle crash in Pottawattmie County.
The 25-year-old and 26-year-old cousins were both riding in the same vehicle just north of Council Bluffs when the car left the road and entered a ditch on the west side of the road. It then rolled over.
According to friends, the cousins were heading home from a nephew’s flag football game at the time.
According to the Iowa State Patrol, an accident with a truck near the city of Montezuma in central Iowa left a bicyclist from Oregon dead this Wednesday.
The 33-year-old bicyclist was pedaling on Iowa Highway 85 when the truck driver spotted him. The driver moved towards the center line to give the cyclist more room.
It was then that the truck’s front right tire failed, causing the truck to lurch to the right. It hit the cyclist, killing him instantly.
According to Iowa police, two people were killed in a one-vehicle crash in Grand Junction late Friday night.
The Iowa State Patrol report that the 37-year old driver and his 23-year-old passenger were killed after the car swerved from the roadway and entered a ditch. Then then struck a drainage culvert and flipped over, coming to rest on its top.
The accident happened a little after 11 PM on Friday on 230th Street east of T Avenue.
A 24-year-old man was struck and killed in a bicycle accident this week in Cedar Terrace.
The crash occurred near the intersection of Cedar Terrace Drive and Texas Street. The cyclist was crossing the intersection when he was struck by a car.
The cyclist was pronounced dead at the scene when police and emergency personnel arrived.
The incident is still under investigation.
The Nebraska man arrested in connection with the August 9th crash that killed four motorcyclists in Western Iowa last month had a blood alcohol level over four times the legal limit at the time of the accident, according to the Iowa State Patrol’s final accident report.
The report, which was released this week, determined that the 21-year-old driver had a BAC of 0.373. The legal limit is 0.08.
The fatal accident happened in a construction zone on Interstate 29 near the Little Sioux exit. Four motorcyclists traveling southbound were struck by the drunk driver when he crossed the center line while headed northbound in his pickup truck.
The four motorcyclists, who were heading home from a motorcyclist convention, were killed in the crash. Criminal charges against the drunk driver are pending an official report from the state crime lab’s toxicology unit. In the meantime, he remains incaracerated. He already faces a civil suit filed by the widow of one of the motorcyclists, who alleges that his negligence was the primary cause of the collision.
Iowa State Patrol deputies report three drivers are dead in a three-vehicle accident involving two trucks and a van.
Authorities said that the crash occurred on Iowa Highway 2 around 8 AM Tuesday, about four miles east of Cordyon.
A 56-year-old woman, a 59-year-old man, and a 24-year-old man were killed in the crash.
Evidence suggests that the 59-year-old man was eastbound on Highway 2, while the 56-year-old woman was westbound on Highway 2 with the 24-year-old behind her. The 59-year-old’s truck crossed the center line and struck both of the other vehicles. Two of the three then burst into flames.
The number of fatal auto accidents in Iowa for 2009 and 2010 has been at a 50 year low, according to the Iowa State Patrol.
As of this week, there have been 191 fatal traffic accidents on Iowa roads, down from 227 at this time last year. 2009 ended with 372 fatal crashes total, and 2010 is shaping up to have even fewer. Fatalities have not been this low since World War II times.
Paul Rierdan explains this lowering in fatal crashes, despite police budget cuts:
“I think technology has helped a great deal. They locate problems areas. In general I think all departments, city state and county all do that. They locate their areas where they’re having problems, fatalities, bad accidents, speed complaints, whatever and then we can concentrate on those areas.”
The state also has a 93% compliance rate when it comes to buckling up and is the second best ranked state in the nation in terms of alcohol related fatalities.
If you or someone you love has been in a car accident, contact the Iowa Auto Accident lawyers of LaMarca & Landry, P.C. by calling 877-327-2600 today.
According to authorities, a Laurens-Marathon Community School District high school science teacher was struck and killed in a bicycle-car accident last Wednesday.
Around 8 p.m. Wednesday, the teacher was riding his bike westbound on Highway 10. He was intending to participate in Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa this summer, friends and school staff told police.
About 3 miles from Marathon, the teacher was struck by a car driven by an 18-year-old former student. Both rider and driver were heading westbound into the setting sun, and the driver was unable to see the bicyclist.
The teacher was taken to Pocahontas Community Hospital but was later pronounced dead.
Police had not filed any charges.
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