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Saturday, June 7, 2014
The Department of Natural Resources says a Des Moines woman was seriously injured when the all-terrain vehicle she was riding rolled over. The DNR says the crash happened Sunday afternoon at Bluff Creek park southwest of Oskaloosa when 36-year-old Roberta Curry apparently hit a tree root, causing the four-wheel vehicle she was riding to turn sharply and roll over. Curry was wearing a helmet, but it came off after the impact. She was flown to Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines.
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Sunday, January 5, 2014
One lane of the Parkway West reopened six hours after a tractor-trailer driver was killed in a rollover crash Monday morning. The medical examiner was called to a crash that closed the westbound lanes of Interstate 376 in Moon Township. The accident happened at 9:42 a.m. in the westbound lanes of Interstate 376 between the Montour Run onramp and the Moon Exit. State police said the driver of a GMC Terrain lost control in the right lane and struck the passenger side of a tractor-trailer in the center lane.