I-80 Oxford, Iowa Interstate Crash

Steve Lombardi

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I drove to Iowa City this weekend for Parent's Day at the Law School. On the return trip to Des Moines Barbara and I passed through the Oxford work construction zone at the Oxford exit on I-80. The road work zone seems small. I suspect, although I can't say for sure, that it's on the westbound lanes. Here is our original news story.

We don’t have much information this morning, but it’s being reported by Radio Iowa and the Des Moines Register that a road construction crew on I-80 near Oxford, Iowa were injured with a semi-truck collided with one of the cement or concrete barriers in a construction zone. Oxford is about nine miles west of Coralville, Iowa. The collision occurred late yesterday morning. You have to wonder if the semi-truck driver was texting or talking on a cell phone.

One of my Hispanic clients is a road crew member injured on I-380 by a lady right up to the orange cones. Since looking at that case and driving through other Interstate road construction on I-35, I-80, I-235 and I-380 it shocks me how distracted drivers are when negotiating through the construction zone. People driving right up to the orange cones, exceeding the speed limit, talking on their cell phones and so many other distractions while driving that I find it difficult to catalogue them all. On the trip home one lady driving a State of Iowa car and the car behind her being driven by a DNR officer were both on cell phones. And I’m not talking about for a few minutes I’m talking about mile after mile after mile. More than 25 miles we drove with her yacking on the phone until I got tired of wondering if she’d put the cell phone down and then I drove off ahead. You’d think safety officers would know better. Apparently they don’t.