Iowa semi-truck driver dies after three-vehicle crash
Updated: 1:20 PM CST Jan 24, 2024
FOUND ANY LEADS. IN IOWA, A MAN DIED ON CHRISTMAS DAY, CONTINUING A TRAGIC TREND ON THE STATE’S HIGHWAYS. NEW AT SIX KCCI ETHAN HUMBLE SHOWS US WHAT LED UP TO THE DEADLY CRASH. ETHAN. BEN AS IS A FRIDAY, AT LEAST 364 PEOPLE HAVE DIED IN CRASHES ON IOWA ROADWAYS THIS YEAR. THAT NUMBER DOES NOT INCLUDE THIS ONE. LAST NIGHT IN MADISON COUNTY. IT’S SHAPING UP TO BE THE DEADLIEST YEAR IN MORE THAN FIVE YEARS. AND THAT’S WHY LAW ENFORCEMENT IS PUSHING HARDER THAN EVER FOR STRICTER LAWS. IT IS NOT WISHED UPON ANYBODY TO SEE WHAT THEY SEE IN THESE CRASHES. AT ABOUT 630 MONDAY NIGHT, CORY BROWN OF CRESTON DIED AFTER A HEAD ON CRASH WITH ANOTHER DRIVER JUST EAST OF WINTERSET ON HIGHWAY 92. THE OTHER DRIVER COLLIDED WITH BROWN WHILE TRYING TO PASS ANOTHER VEHICLE. ALTHOUGH THE INVESTIGATION IS STILL UNDERWAY, SERGEANT ALEX DINKLA OF THE IOWA STATE PATROL SAYS THE CRASH WAS LIKELY DRIVER ERROR. IT WAS AN UNSAFE PASS BECAUSE THERE WAS CARS STILL COMING AT THE OTHER DRIVER IN THIS IN THIS INSTANCE. BUT THAT CRASH IS ONLY ONE OF MANY TRAFFIC RELATED DEATHS. THIS YEAR, THE STATE OF IOWA WILL AVERAGE MORE THAN ONE DEATH EACH DAY ON THE ROADWAYS IN 2023. DINKLA SAYS ONE REASON FOR THE HIGH NUMBERS IS AN INCREASE IN PHONE USE WHILE DRIVING. WHY ARE MOTORISTS LEAVING THEIR OWN LANE GOING INTO ANOTHER LANE? MUCH OF THAT IS MOST LIKELY CONTRIBUTED TO DESTROY FACTIONS IN THE MOTOR VEHICLE. THAT’S WHY THE STATE PATROL DESPERATELY WANTS STRICTER, HANDS FREE LAWS. WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE PUSHING FOR A HANDS FREE LEGISLATION, JUST AS WE HAVE THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS. WE’VE BEEN UNSUCCESSFUL IN DOING THAT, BUT HOPEFULLY HERE IN 2024, WE CAN DO HANDS FREE HERE IN IOWA. BUT UNTIL THEN, HE’S URGING ALL IOWANS TO DO THEIR PART TO KEEP THE ROADS SAFE. WE CAN’T DO THIS ALONE. WE NEED EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN EVERY SINGLE DRIVER AND MOTORIST OUT THERE DOING THEIR PART TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CONTINUE TO HAVE SAFE ROADS HERE IN IOWA. FOR THE HANDS FREE LAW PASSED THE STATE SENATE IN THE MOSTRILLIONECENT SESSION BUT FAILED TO BECOME LAW. AND IT REMAINS UNCLEAR IF THE LAW WILL
Iowa semi-truck driver dies after three-vehicle crash
Updated: 1:20 PM CST Jan 24, 2024
An Iowa man is dead after a three-vehicle crash in northwest Iowa.Video above: Deadly crashes on Iowa roads at a seven-year highHumberto Aladro-Valdes, 63, of Storm Lake, was driving a semi-truck westbound on Iowa Highway 7 Tuesday morning when his vehicle failed to stop at an intersection with US Highway 71. His truck hit another semi traveling northbound on US-71, causing the northbound vehicle’s trailer to sideswipe the trailer of another semi driving south, according to Iowa State Patrol.Aladro-Valdes was ejected from the vehicle and died at the scene.The drivers of the other two vehicles were not injured.
An Iowa man is dead after a three-vehicle crash in northwest Iowa.
Video above: Deadly crashes on Iowa roads at a seven-year high
Humberto Aladro-Valdes, 63, of Storm Lake, was driving a semi-truck westbound on Iowa Highway 7 Tuesday morning when his vehicle failed to stop at an intersection with US Highway 71. His truck hit another semi traveling northbound on US-71, causing the northbound vehicle’s trailer to sideswipe the trailer of another semi driving south, according to Iowa State Patrol.
Aladro-Valdes was ejected from the vehicle and died at the scene.
The drivers of the other two vehicles were not injured.
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