THE SECTION OF INTERSTATE-80 THAT GOES THROUGH JASPER COUNTY MAY SOON HAVE THE DUBIOUS DISTINCTION OF BEING THE DEADLIEST STRETCH OF FREEWAY IN THE STATE.

 

THERE WAS ANOTHER FATAL HEAD-ON CRASH ON THAT SECTION OF ROADWAY…THIS ONE TOOK PLACE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AT THREE-40 IN THE EASTBOUND LANE NEAR THE MAIN NEWTON INTERCHANGE. THE IOWA STATE PATROL ACCIDENT REPORT STATES 19-YEAR OLD NATESHA RAE YOUNGMAN OF COLFAX WAS DRIVING AN S-U-V WESTBOUND, LOST CONTROL, CROSSED THE MEDIAN, CLIPPED A SEMI-TRUCK AND HER VEHICLE BURST INTO FLAMES. IT WAS THEN HIT BY A VAN DRIVEN BY 66-YEAR OLD NORMA LEE BRIGNON OF GRINNELL.

 

YOUNGMAN WAS DEAD AT THE SCENE. BRIGNON AND A PASSENGER, 77-YEAR OLD MARJORIE GARRETT KING, ALSO OF GRINNELL, WERE INJURED AND TAKEN BY AMBULANCE TO SKIFF MEDICAL CENTER. THE DRIVER OF THE SEMI, WILEY RAY VANOMMEN OF SEARSBORO WAS UNINJURED.

 

THERE WERE TWO SERIOUS HEAD-ON CRASHES LAST WEEKEND ON I-80 IN JASPER COUNTY…IN ONE OF WHICH SEVEN PEOPLE DIED.