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Daily NewslettersAs 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.
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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.
Hundreds of Iowa State Patrol troopers gathered in Waukon for the funeral of Trooper Ted Benda, who died Oct. 20 after crashing his patrol car while going to assist with a call in Clayton County. The service at the Waukon High School was expected to be attended by family, friends, community members and law enforcement.
The funeral begins at 11 a.m. at Waukon High School and is being livestreamed.
Steven Kohli, 69, was checking the damage to a vehicle he was in that had just struck a deer on Interstate 35 in southwest Warren County.
Officers investigating a Sunday night shooting in south Iowa City that has a 20-year-old Marine fighting for his life have identified a person they suspect to be “responsible for the driver’s injury” and believe the shooting was “unintentional.”
Police found the 20-year-old with a gunshot wound inside a crashed car in southeast Iowa City. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Iowa City Police Department.
He was responding to a Clayton County call for service when he crashed north of Postville
Two were killed and one person was injured following a head-on collision along Highway 150 in Buchanan County near Hazleton.
Iowa City police found an unconscious 20-year-old man with a gunshot wound in a vehicle on Highway 6 when responding to a traffic crash on Sunday.
