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(UPDATE) 2 dead after crash near Walcott

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December 28th, 2020 by Ric Hanson

WALCOTT, Iowa (AP) — In an update to our reports on Sunday, the Iowa State Patrol has identified the two people who died and a person who was injured during a wrong-way, head-on crash on I-80 eastbound in eastern Iowa. The accident happened late Saturday on Interstate 80 near Walcott. The Iowa State Patrol said a 1999 Chrysler Concorde was traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes when it struck an Infiniti QX60. The driver of the Concorde, 30-year-old Amanda Lin Countryman of Compton, Illinois, was killed, along with 28-year-old Connor Reisenbigler of New York City.

The driver of the Infiniti, 27-year-old John Martin Keane of the Bronx, New York, was hospitalized but his condition was not released. The patrol says the accident remains under investigation.