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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Sat Mar 26, 2016, 06:16 PM Mar 2016

2 Iowa Oolice Officers Among 4 Killed In Wrong-Way Crash


DES MOINES, Iowa --Two police officers and a prisoner they were transporting were killed early Saturday in a fiery crash on an interstate highway in Iowa that investigators say was caused by a wrong-way driver, who also died.

Des Moines officers Susan Farrell and Carlos Puente-Morales, who had been on the job less than six months, were killed in the crash that occurred around 12:40 a.m. Saturday on Interstate 80 west of Des Moines, police spokesman Sgt. Paul Parizek said.

CBS affiliate KCCI reported the officers had been returning the prisoner, identified as Tosha Nicole Hyatt of Des Moines, from Council Bluffs to Des Moines when their sport utility vehicle was struck by a vehicle driving the wrong way on the freeway, police said.

Both officers and the driver of the other vehicle were wearing seat belts at the time of the crash, Parizek said. Investigators had not yet determined by Saturday morning whether Hyatt was wearing a seat belt, he said.

The Iowa State Patrol is investigating. Police said this was the first time since 2007 that a Des Moines officer has died in a car crash, according to KCCI.

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2 Iowa Oolice Officers Among 4 Killed In Wrong-Way Crash (Original Post) Purveyor Mar 2016 OP
I passed the scene around 3am. denbot Mar 2016 #1
That's just wrong on so many levels... Phentex Mar 2016 #2
You might want to correct the typo in your subject line oberliner Mar 2016 #3
Sadden for the victims and for their families. imanamerican63 Mar 2016 #4

denbot

(9,894 posts)
1. I passed the scene around 3am.
Sat Mar 26, 2016, 07:37 PM
Mar 2016

The car was on a flatbed tow truck burned out bent at about a 25 degree angle with the front half crushed into a wedge shape. It was so badly damaged I assumed it hit a big rigg.

Two years ago on the I-80 in Nebraska I had a vehicle cross the medium spinning into my lanes, but luckily it was far enough ahead of me I was able to squeeze onto the shoulder and get by it without any one getting hurt.

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