Automobile Accidents

• Iowa - Two hit-and-runs

  Steve Lombardi | September 17, 2007 1:10 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  One took place in Story County and the other in Linn. In each the victim was serious injured or dead. Under Iowa law all drivers have a duty to stop and render assistance when involved in a motor vehicle accident. That includes exchanging information. The Story County driver was apprehended, arrested and charged with vehicular homicide. There was no information available about toxicology...

• Iowa Gravel Roads and Shoulders

  Steve Lombardi | September 17, 2007 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  The gravel roads in rural Iowa can cause havoc to unsuspecting drivers and their passengers. Fatalities and serious injuries are the result of the front tires going off onto the shoulder such as occurred in Wright County, Lake Mills, Iowa on August 31, 2007. After the front tires go off the roadway, the car can be pulled sideways causing it to roll.Of course the driver is legally responsible for...

• The More Teenager Passengers The More Likely Distractions Will Lead To An Accident

  Steve Lombardi | September 07, 2007 9:54 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  At least that is what the defendant's lawyers will say. Five young teenage girls from the Ames cross-country team of Ames High School were reported to be in a car collision at 580th Avenue and Lincoln Highway in Story County. Several of the girls were taken to the hospital, one in serious condition. I had a friend who once told me he and his wife researched the issue of what vehicles had the...

• Fatalities in Iowa from Motor Vehicle Accidents

  Steve Lombardi | September 04, 2007 11:48 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Young drivers, those sixteen to twenty-one account for many of the deaths from motor vehicle accidents. Passengers are often times very young, fourteen to sixteen. And it is the passengers that often times are either seriously hurt or are killed. The time of the accident is often times at night. They are not as skilled as adult drivers and lose control on gravel roads so common in rural Iowa....

• Ortiz of Iowa Killed Returning to ISU

  Steve Lombardi | August 30, 2007 5:00 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Virginia "Jenna" Ortiz, a chemical engineering major at ISU was killed as a result of a Marshalltown women crossing the center line and hitting her car head-on. The reporting is sketchy as to why Cristina Helmer, a 50 year old woman, crossed the center line on U.S. Highway 30 near Route 131.The law requires us to drive on our own side of the road so there better be a pretty good explanation for...

• Shannon of Council Bluffs, Iowa Rear-ended While Turning

  Steve Lombardi | August 30, 2007 5:00 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  What Casandra Shannon needs today is a good lawyer. As she was turning into the LPL's lounge north of Harry Langdon Blvd. her pickup truck was rear ended by a Ford Escort driven by Jody L. Penny. It slammed into her so hard that she was pushed into an F-150 pickup and an F-250 pickup truck. You know the law requires everyone driving to maintain a proper lookout and to drive at a speed that...

• Polk City Accident - Personal Injury

  Steve Lombardi | August 18, 2007 12:04 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  July 23, 2007--Emergency crews responded to an accident in rural Polk City this morning. Three people were involved in the accident, which happened around 8:30 a.m. just northwest of Big Creek State Park. The Polk County sheriff's department says two pick-ups collided in the intersection of Northwest 146th Avenue and 128th Street. One of the people involve din the accident was airlifted to...

• David Edmunds Injured As Other Vehicle Crosses Center Line on I-29 In Iowa

  Steve Lombardi | August 15, 2007 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Council Bluffs rescue transported two men to Creighton University Hospital Saturday after their vehicles collided around 1 p.m. According to reports, Taneko Brown, 35, of Omaha was southbound on Interstate 29 in a 2000 Buick Regal just north of the 13th Avenue railroad overpass. He reportedly crossed the median and collided with David Edmunds, 57, of Council Bluffs who was northbound on I-29 in...

• Former Waterloo Resident Dies in Two-Car Accident

  Steve Lombardi | August 14, 2007 9:43 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  http://theleafchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=NEWS01WAYLAND, MO. --- A former Waterloo woman died Friday while returning to Iowa for a high school reunion.Pamela (Moran) Lujan, 47, of Clarksville, Tenn., had been to her 20th and 25th Central High reunions and was looking forward to the 30-year get-together last Saturday, said her sister, Lisa Casey.Lujan was traveling with a friend...

• Story County, Iowa Woman is Seriously Injured

  Steve Lombardi | August 09, 2007 10:29 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  August 4, 2007--A woman is at Mercy Hospital in Des Moines recovering from a serious car accident. The crash happened in Story County around 11 o'clock Saturday morning at the junction of Highway 30 and 680th Avenue, just west of Colo.Story County Sheriff Paul Fitzgerald says a teenage boy driving a white pick-up truck made a left hand turn at the intersection, slamming into the woman's brown...