April 19, 2024

Collision near construction zone

A crash occurred about 2:50 p.m. Thursday along County Highway F48 on the south side of the I-80 overpass. Jasper County Sheriff John Halferty said a Nissan SUV, after traveling through the single lane of the construction zone on the overpass, failed to move to the right into the normal highway lane and struck a stopped Chevy Lumina head-on as it waited at a temporary single-lane light. A man and woman from the Lumina were taken to Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines, with apparent non-life threatening injuries. The driver of the Nissan wasn’t injured. A non-injury crash also happened while deputies were on scene.