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Fatal weekend crash in northwest IA

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September 10th, 2018 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) — A driver who ran a stop sign is blamed for a fatal accident this weekend in northwest Iowa. The crash happened Saturday afternoon at an intersection southeast of Larchwood. A State Patrol crash report shows 74-year-old Kenneth Wulf was driving a pickup that went through a stop sign and hit another pickup driven by 31-year-old Benjamin Dieters. Both men are from Larchwood.

The Dieters pickup, which was pulling a trailer, rolled in a ditch and the trailer crushed the cab. Dieters died at the scene. Wulf suffered minor injuries.