The Iowa State Patrol Tuesday evening released details and the names of those involved in a crash that happened at around 9:30-a.m. Tuesday, on Interstate 80 in Cass County. Officials say a 2015 Ford Transit Van carrying members of Presidential candidate Ben Carson’s campaign staff, was traveling west on I-80 about a mile east of the Elk Horn exit, when the vehicle went out of control on the icy road. The Carson campaign late Tuesday evening one of the staffers had died.

The van crossed the median and into the eastbound lanes, where it was hit by a 2012 Chevy Avalanche. The van then rolled into the south ditch. Injured in the crash was the driver of the van, 27-year old Jonathan McCall, of Sugar Land, TX (who was wearing his seat belt), 18-year old Aaron Ohnemus (no city given – not wearing a seat belt), and 24-year old Braden Joplin, of Midland, TX. Joplin, was transported to the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic before being transferred to the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, where he later died.

Also injured was 34-year old Laneanne Lane, of Exira, a 12-year old male, a 5-year old male (Seat belt used), and a 10-year old female (seat belt used). The Patrol says all three of the children, and Laneanne Lane, were transported by Medivac Ambulance to the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic. The children were subsequently transferred to Children’s Hospital, in Omaha. Ohnemus were transported to CCMH by Walnut Rescue.

The accident prompted Carson, the Republican presidential candidate, to cancel campaign stops Tuesday and Wednesday.