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Update: Bluffs woman dies in crash near Council Bluffs

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June 13th, 2017 by Ric Hanson

The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office reports a woman from Council Bluffs died during a near head-on crash Monday evening, southeast of Council Bluffs. Officials identified the victim who died as 73-year old Patricia Larson. Two other people, 46-year old Tina Shipley, of Glenwood, and a passenger in her vehicle, Roger Shipley, were transported to a local hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.

Authorities say the accident happened at around 5:19-p.m. near the intersection of Wabash Avenue and Ashwood Lane. A preliminary investigation indicates Larson was traveling southbound on Wabash Avenue in a 2014 Chevrolet Cruze.  Tina Shipley was traveling northbound on Wabash Avenue in a 2013 Ford F-150, when the vehicles collided head-on.

Patricia Larson was pronounced deceased at the scene.  The cause of the accident remains under investigation.