Two people were killed, three hurt, in a crash Sunday night on Interstate 29 in Harrison County.
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The Iowa State Patrol says a 2017 Cadillac XTS driven by 80-year-old Richard Lee Van Zee, of Rock Valley, for some reason drove off the left side of I-29 near mile marker 99, entered the median and the southbound lanes of the Interstate, where it sideswiped a southbound 2005 Chrysler 300 driven by 31-year-old Saul Escobedo Gonzales, of Des Moines. The Cadillac then hit a 2008 Ford F-450 truck that was behind the Chrysler. Van Zee was transported to the hospital in Missouri Valley, where he died. A passenger in one of the vehicles, 65-year-old Elizabeth J. Cobbs, of Knightstown, Indiana, was transported to the hospital in Onawa, where she died from her injuries. Seventy-seven-year-old Mary Van Zee, of Rock Valley, along with 66-year-old Michael E. Gerrish, of Shirley, Indiana, and 52-year-old Melinda A. Gerrish, also of Shirley, Indiana, were also injured in the crash. Mary Van Zee was flown by helicopter to a hospital in Sioux City, along with Michael Gerrish, who was transported by ambulance. Melinda Gerrish was transported by ambulance to the hospital in Onawa. The crash remains under investigation.