2 dead after crash near Walcott
Posted December 28, 2020 6:00 am
WALCOTT, Iowa (AP) - Two people are dead and another person is injured after a wrong-way, head-on crash on an eastern Iowa interstate highway.
The accident happened late Saturday on Interstate 80 near Walcott. The Iowa State Patrol said a 1999 Chrysler Concorde was traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes when it struck an Infiniti QX60.
The driver of the Concorde, 30-year-old Amanda Lin Countryman of Compton, Illinois, was killed, along with 28-year-old Connor Reisenbigler of New York City. The driver of the Infiniti, 27-year-old John Martin Keane of the Bronx, New York, was hospitalized but his condition was not released.
The patrol said the accident remains under investigation.
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