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Roundup: Crash backs up I-380 near Highway 30; Linn-Mar bus slides into ditch
An accident backed up northbound Interstate 380 traffic near Highway 30, one of a number of crashes reported in the area from today's light snowfall.
The crash, reported just before 8 a.m., involved a car sideways on the road. One northbound lane was blocked, and traffic backed up at least four miles, according to reports from the scene.
A school bus from the Linn-Mar school district also slid off the road around 7:15 a.m. today, near the intersection of Cory Road and Martin Creek Road. A Linn County dispatcher confirmed that there were no students on the bus, and no one was hurt. The bus was being pulled out around 8:45 a.m.
The storm blowing through Iowa today has already claimed one life. Authorities says a western Iowa woman died in a traffic accident on ice-covered Interstate 80 northeast of Council Bluffs.
The Iowa State Patrol says 61-year-old Linda Baylis, of Exira, died on Sunday when her pickup truck went off the eastbound lane, rolled several times and ended up in a ditch.
The accident happened about 5:15 p.m. near the Neola exit in Pottawattamie County.
The patrol says the interstate was covered with ice and snow.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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A tow truck pulls a Linn-Mar School District school bus up Martin Creek Road after it slid into the ditch at the intersection of Cory Road in rural Linn County this morning, Monday, Jan. 25, 2010. No students were on the bus when it slid off the ice-packed gravel road, and no one was injured. A road grader came by to break up some of the ice, so the tow truck could get traction. (Jeff Raasch/The Gazette)
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