An Iowa Department of Transportation program aimed at clearing large crashes quickly to prevent traffic from backing up was recently expanded to the Des Moines area after proving successful around Iowa City.
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An Iowa Department of Transportation program aimed at clearing large crashes quickly to prevent traffic from backing up was recently expanded to the Des Moines area after proving successful around Iowa City.
A train hauling ethanol and corn syrup derailed and caught fire in Minnesota early Thursday and nearby residents were ordered to evacuate their homes, authorities said.
A Missouri woman died Monday when her vehicle collided with two other vehicles in rural Poweshiek County, according to an Iowa State Patrol crash report.
The report stated that a 2014 Volkswagen and a 2014 Chevrolet collided head-on in the inside lane of eastbound I-80 at mile marker 284.
Two Linn Mar School District buses were involved in a collision Thursday just after 1 p.m. at the intersection of Brentwood Dr NE and C Ave NE, according to a news release from the Cedar Rapids Police Department.
Arlene and John Yanecek, ages 81 and 75, of Cedar Rapids, were killed Saturday evening in a car crash at the intersection of Wiley Boulevard SW and Williams Boulevard SW.
“He was an amazing father and brother and husband and cousin and best friend of many people,” Bridgette Vascik said of her husband. He was “honest, loving, dependable ... positive, supporting.”
Iowa State Patrol spokesman Alex Dinkla said the driver lost control of the van on a stretch of U.S. Highway 20 near Wellsburg that was covered with snow and ice. Four passengers were ejected when the van entered the median and rolled over.
WELLSBURG (AP) — Four people were killed Friday morning and others were injured when a van they were in went out of control on a slick highway in northern Iowa.
A Bettendorf woman was killed in a crash on Interstate 80 Saturday morning in Cedar County.
A woman who died in a crash in Marion last week was identified Monday as 72-year-old Linda St. John, of Stanwood.
The woman struck a slow-moving Iowa Department of Transportation snowplow truck that was on the left shoulder conducting a maintenance project.
One person was killed in a crash Wednesday afternoon at the intersection of Highway 100 and East Post Road in Marion.
At 11:25 a.m., north of North Liberty near mile marker 7, northbound traffic had slowed down and started to back up for towing that was happening near mile marker 9.
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