A THIRD PERSON HAS DIED FOLLOWING A THREE VEHICLE ACCIDENT SUNDAY EVENING ON INTERSTATE 29 NEAR BLENCOE.
THE IOWA STATE PATROL SAYS 80-YEAR-OLD RICHARD VAN ZEE OF ROCK VALLEY WAS DRIVING NORTHBOUND ON I-29 WHEN HIS CAR VEERED OFF THE LEFT SIDE OF ROAD AND THROUGH THE MEDIAN INTO THE SOUTHBOUND LANES.
HIS CAR SIDESWIPED AN ONCOMING VEHICLE AND THEN COLLIDED WITH A PICKUP TRUCK AND TRAILER.
VAN ZEE’S VEHICLE WENT BACK INTO THE MEDIAN WHILE THE TRUCK ENED UP IN A DITCH.
VAN ZEE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT A MISSOURI VALLEY HOSPITAL.
HIS WIFE, 77-YEAR-OLD MARY VAN ZEE, WAS LIFE-FLIGHTED TO MERCY MEDICAL CENTER.
SHE DIED MONDAY FROM INJURIES SHE SUSTAINED IN THE ACCIDENT.
A PASSENGER IN THE PICKUP, 65-YEAR-OLD ELIZABETH COBBS OF KNIGHTSTOWN, INDIANA, DIED SUNDAY FROM INJURIES SUFFERED IN THE WRECK.
THE DRIVER OF THE PICKUP, 66-YEAR-OLD MICHAEL GERISH, AND 52-YEAR-OLD MELINDA GERISH, BOTH OF SHIRLEY, INDIANA, WERE TAKEN TO BURGESS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL IN ONAWA WITH INJURIES.
THE DRIVER OF THE SECOND VEHICLE WAS NOT INJURED.
