One Dead, One Hurt In Iowa Semi-Vs-Tractor Crash

(Poweshiek Co., IA) -- A Grinnell man is dead after a tractor versus semi truck crash in Poweshiek County. The Iowa State Patrol says a semi truck rear-ended the wagon pulled by a tractor. The Patrol says the semi ended up in a ditch, killing 68-year-old Garland Roth. The tractor driver, 72-year-old Charles Griffith of Brooklyn, was taken to a hospital in unknown condition.

The ISP says the crash happened at 6 p.m. Monday in the 44-hundred block or County Road V18, south of Interstate 80.

The Patrol says the semi and tractor were both northbound on V18, when the semi rear-ended the grain wagon pulled by the tractor.


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