Iowa State Patrol Fatality Reports for Saturday, January 1, 2011.

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Iowa State Patrol Fatality Reports for Saturday, January 1, 2011.

Every Saturday this law firm posts the current Iowa State Patrol fatality and injury report list so our out-of-state clients and potential clients have access to the latest word from the Iowa State Patrol. If you have questions about what the investigating officer's report means, or how to interpret it, give Steve Lombardi a call at 515-222-1110 or send him an email at sdlombardi@aol.com. Here are the injury reports for January 1, 2011.

Today there are four fatal crash reports from four different counties. I'll comment individually on each on Wednesday of this coming week. For today here is a lead on what we will discuss.

In this first post we have a Marshall County collision the day after Christmas. The road the accident occurs on is 180^th Street East of Knapp Avenue. The time is 1514 hours or 3:14 p.m. on December 26, 2010. It's a two-vehicle collision and the office has the initial impact at the crest of a hill or rise in the roadway. What is significant about this collision is the officer's finding that both vehicles were driving in the center of the road, which if true would make both drivers at-fault drivers. If true for the drivers they are 50:50 and that would deny each recovery. As for the passengers, it is probably a different story, they aren't controlling the cars' movements so they can't be found to be at-fault. If there was drinking involved that would be another story and another legal theory referred to as complicity or assumption of risk. Here is the accident report that follows the short narrative by Trooper Larson.

Crash:

Minimal Reports

A crash occurred in Marshall County on December 26, 2010

UNIT 1 WAS WESTBOUND ON 180TH ST A GRAVEL ROAD UNIT 2 WAS EASTBOUND ON 180TH ST BOTH WERE TRAVELLING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROADWAY AS THEY TOPPED THE HILL THEY COLLIDED HEADON. Trooper Rod Larson from Post 1 was assisted by the Marshall County Sheriff's Department.

Full Reports

A crash occurred in Palo Alto County on December 27, 2010

AT APPROXIMATELY 1253 HRS ON 12-27-10 THOMAS JOSEPH LICHTER OF BURT, IA WAS DRIVING A 1991 BUICK REGAL NORTH BOUND ON 540TH AVE, A GRAVEL ROAD, APPROXIMATELY .6 ...

A crash occurred in Jasper County on December 23, 2010

UNIT # 1 WAS GOING NORTH ON HIGHWAY # 224. UNIT # 2 WAS GOING SOUTH ON HIGHWAY #224. UNIT # 1 TURNED LEFT INTO THE PATH OF UNIT # 2. BOTH VEHICLES HIT HEAD O ...

A crash occurred in Lucas County on December 22, 2010

DRIVER OF VEHICLE #1, RACHEL GREENE, HAD PARKED HER VEHICLE ON THE SOUTHBOUND SHOULDER OF HWY 65 IN ORDER TO RENDER AID TO VICTIMS OF A PREVIOUS ACCIDENT. THE D ...

Category: I-35 I-80 I-235 I-380 Collisions/Accidents

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