One dead, two seriously injured in Greene County crash
RALSTON, Iowa — A crash on Highway 30 near 210th Street, just north of Ralston, resulted in one fatality and two serious injuries on Friday afternoon.
Authorities reported that a vehicle pulled out from a stop sign and was struck by another vehicle. Seventy-five-year-old Marcia Bachmann of Denison was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver and passenger of the second vehicle were transported to a nearby hospital with serious injuries. Emergency responders and law enforcement agencies are investigating the incident.
As of the latest data from the Iowa Department of Transportation, 181 fatalities have been recorded on Iowa roads in 2023, an increase of 14 from the same period in 2022. Over the past five years, the average annual death toll from crashes in Iowa has been 337.