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Wednesday, April 23, 2014
A wrong-way accident on the Highway 65 bypass claimed the life of one person and injured another Thursday morning. The accident happened around 8:45 a.m. near the Vandalia Road interchange in Pleasant Hill. Officials say 20-year-old Austin Ruppert of Carlisle driving southbound in the northbound lane when he realized the mistake and tried to get into the correct lane. While trying to maneuver the car it was T-boned by a vehicle heading northbound.
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Saturday, April 19, 2014
A Des Moines man is dead after his Jeep got stuck in a pool of water while off-roading Sunday night. It happened around 8:00 p.m. south of the Des Moines River near Southeast 45th Street and Evergreen. Police say 21-year-old Matthew Blackford got his Jeep stuck in a pool of water while off-roading with friends and when he tried to get out he fell in and became unresponsive. His friends got him out of the water and started CPR. Paramedics took Blackford to the hospital where he later died. Police took his three friends to the station for questioning.
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Saturday, April 12, 2014
The Iowa State Patrol has identified the teenager killed in Sunday’s fatal crash on Interstate 80 in Coralville. According to the state patrol’s minimal crash report, Sambatu A. Ibit, 19, of Des Moines, was a passenger in the 2003 Toyota Corolla that lost control, hit the south wall of the interstate and was rear ended by a truck. The crash happened a 2:06 p.m. at the 239 mile marker of the westbound lanes of Interstate 80. Ibit was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash.
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Friday, April 11, 2014
Decorah woman died Thursday after crash in Dubuque late Saturday. Dubuque police pulled over 22-year-old Alexandra Benson on Jackson Street. Police discovered there was an active warrant out for her in Delaware County. Benson drove off, ran a red light, and smashed into a car two blocks away. Emergency responders had to extricate Benson from the truck. Benson died from her injuries at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Thursday.
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Saturday, April 5, 2014

Sheriff's deputies arrested a man for drunk driving following a crash that killed a pedestrian in Dubuque County early Sunday morning.

The crash happened just before 3 a.m. near Farley. Law officers say 24-year-old Alex Hannan was merging onto Highway 20 when he hit the pedestrian later identified as Dawson Besler, 21, a student at the University of Northern Iowa.. Hannan is in the Dubuque County Jail for Operating a vehicle while intoxicated.

Traffic was backed up for more than three hours as crews investigated the crash.

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Friday, April 4, 2014

A motorcycle accident Saturday claimed the life of a Clinton man.

Officials confirmed today the identity of a man pronounced dead at the scene of the accident as Jonathan Nash, 41, of Clinton.

According to a press release, Clinton County deputies were dispatched at 7:19 p.m. Saturday night for a motorcycle accident in the 3800 block of Iowa 136, approximately 2 miles east of Goose Lake. A single motorcycle was found lying at the scene.

The operator, Nash, was pronounced dead at the scene by the Clinton County Medical Examiner’s Office.

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Thursday, April 3, 2014

Jo Daviess County officers now releasing the name of the man killed in a three-vehicle accident late Friday night.

They say James Jones, of Fulton, Illinois, died after trying to pass another car in a "no passing zone" and hitting a semi head on.

The 60-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene.

It happened around 11:45 p.m. near the intersection of Galena Ridge Drive and Highway 20 in rural Stockton.

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Friday, March 28, 2014

Fire department members have found their former chief dead after a car accident in northern Iowa.

The crash occurred early Saturday on a rural highway west of Austinville in Butler County.

Officials say a car driven by 59-year-old Keith Oelmann ran off a bridge and rolled. The Aplington Fire Department responded to the accident call. The current chief says firefighters didn't realize their former chief was involved until they found his body.

The crash is being investigated.

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Thursday, March 27, 2014

A single vehicle rollover crash sent a Cedar Falls teen to the hospital Friday evening.

The Black Hawk County Sheriff's office says it happened around 4:30 p.m. about four miles west of Dunkerton on E. Dunkerton Road.

Investigators say 17-year-old Karlee Ann Johnson and two passengers were traveling westbound when Johnson lost control of her vehicle.

The vehicle ran off the north side of the road and rolled over into a farm field.

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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

One person was killed following a single-vehicle accident Thursday morning in Keokuk County.

Shortly after 2:10 a.m. Thursday, emergency crews responded to the crash located along Highway 149, just north of Sigourney.

According to Keokuk County Sheriff’s Office, Melvin Dean Spoelstra, 44, of New Sharon,was pronounced dead at the scene.

The accident is still under investigation.