Two people are dead, three others were injured during a crash at around 6:15-p.m. Sunday on southbound Interstate 29, in Harrison County. 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.

The Cadillac came to rest in the median. Gonzales was able to pull his car off the road and onto the shoulder, while the pickup came to rest in the west ditch. 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, IN, was transported to Burgess Hospital in Onawa, where she died from her injuries. 77-year old Mary Van Zee, of Rock Valley, along with 66-year old Michael E. Gerrish, of Shirley, IN, and 52-year old Melinda A. Gerrish, also of Shirley, IN, were also injured in the crash. Mary Van Zee was flown by LifeNet to Mercy Hospital in Sioux City, along with Michael Gerrish, who was transported by ambulance. Melinda Gerrish was transported by ambulance to Burgess Hospital.

The crash remains under investigation.