Excessive speed, distracted driving, impaired driving and not wearing seat belts are some of the motorist behaviors that pushed fatalities to 372 in 2023 so far -- up 10 percent from last year and well over five-year average.
An Alburnett man was killed Friday after his car was struck by a pickup truck near Anamosa, according to the Iowa State Patrol.
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested in Poweshiek County Tuesday after two state troopers report they found him parked on the side of Interstate 80 with a dead body in his car.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds deployed more than 100 Iowa National Guard soldiers to Texas on Wednesday to assist at the U.S.-Mexico border for the next month.
The driver overcorrected and the vehicle rolled, causing the driver to be ejected from the cab.
A man walking along U.S. Highway 30 in Cedar County was struck and killed Tuesday night as he crossed the roadway, according to an Iowa State Patrol accident report.
A bill passed during this year’s legislative session made the Iowa Department of Transportation’s Motor Vehicle Enforcement division part of the state patrol.
Iowa law has several code sections outlining charges for littering, but the Linn County Attorney’s Office hasn’t charged anyone in the last year. The Iowa State Patrol has filed only 64 citations statewide.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds announced Tuesday that she plans to send about 100 Iowa National Guard soldiers and 30 law enforcement officers to Texas to assist with border security between the United States and Mexico.
Gov. Kim Reynolds signed Senate File 513 into law Tuesday, moving motor vehicle enforcement duties under the jurisdiction of the Department of Public Safety.
Speeding, which surged during pandemic, could be partly to blame for spike
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.
The woman struck a slow-moving Iowa Department of Transportation snowplow truck that was on the left shoulder conducting a maintenance project.
The Iowa State Patrol said the crashes happened about 5:40 a.m. Sunday on westbound I-80, which the patrol said was “100 percent ice” at the time.
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