One killed, two injured in northeast Cedar Rapids crash

CEDAR RAPIDS - One person was killed and two others were injured in a two-vehicle crash Tuesday morning.

Cedar Rapids public safety spokesman Greg Buelow said police and fire personnel were called to the 3700 block of Blairs Ferry Road NE for a two vehicle collision at 8:32 a.m. Buelow said a Ford C-Max was eastbound on Blairs Ferry Road at the same time a Dodge truck was westbound.

Buelow said the Dodge truck crossed the centerline for reasons that are not yet known and hit the Ford C-Max head-on. One of the two occupants of the Ford, John Secl, 67 of Cedar Rapids, was killed in the crash. Gloria Secl, 67, of Cedar Rapids, was taken to Unity Point-St. Luke's Hospital with serious injuries. The truck driver, Daniel Derhammer, 46 of Cedar Rapids, was also hospitalized with serious injuries, Buelow said.

The crash remains under investigation.

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