Crashes

A public celebration of life is scheduled at Decorah High School at 5 p.m. Thursday for two teens who were killed in a single-vehicle crash Friday night.

SUV flipped three times after going into ditch in crash, investigators say

Prosecutors said Jayme Powell ran over Richard Polak, of Omaha, while he rode his motorcycle on Interstate 29 near Whiting, Iowa, on Dec. 27, 2020, after the two had a fight earlier that night in Sioux City.

A driver accused of being drunk when he crashed into and seriously injured a West Des Moines police officer last year has been sentenced to five years in prison.

The Boone Police Department said Mario Gonzalez died Saturday in a crash, but they didn't immediately release any details about the crash.

A joyous scene of marching bands and children dancing in Santa hats and waving pompoms turned deadly in an instant, as an SUV sped through barricades and into a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee, killing at least five people and injuring more than 40 others.

As of Friday, Iowa’s traffic death count stood at 312, which officials with the state Department of Transportation said outpaced the death toll for that same date in the four previous years.

A former manager for an influential Iowa-based pork dealer has died in a crash, days after federal prosecutors charged him in a scheme to swindle hog farmers through fraudulent buying practices.

The Iowa State Patrol said 59-year-old Jay Statser of West Liberty was traveling westbound on I-80 in a 1998 Ford Explorer about 10:44 p.m. when he lost control, entered the north ditch and struck a bridge pillar for the Highway 1, or North Dodge Street, overpass.

The crash that killed Iowa State Patrol Trooper Ted Benda last month happened when he swerved to avoid a deer while responding to a call at high speed, Iowa State Patrol reported Friday.

At about 6:10 p.m., a driver was traveling north on Highway 1, between Iowa City and Solon at Fox Lane NE, when a deer ran into the path of the car, according to the Iowa State Patrol.

A 12-year-old girl driving a Polaris Ranger UTV with a passenger lost control of the vehicle, which rolled over into a ditch, ejecting the driver and pinning her underneath, the Sheriff’s Office reported. The juvenile passenger was not injured in Sunday’s crash.