A head-on collision in Dallas County Tuesday night claimed the life of an adult female, and injured two others, including a child. The Iowa State Patrol reports a 2009 Volkswagen Jetta driven by 53-year-old Stephen Joseph Wink, of Council Bluffs, was traveling south on Dallas County Road P-58, about one-mile south of Perry, at around 10:54-p.m., when the vehicle crossed into the northbound lane and struck a 2001 Toyota Echo passenger car, driven by 40-year-old Danyel Denise Hardisty, of Minburn.

Hardisty died at the scene. Her passenger, seven-year-old Javen Sorensen, of Minburn, and Stephen Wink, were injured and transported to hospitals in Des Moines by Dallas County EMS. Authorities say driver impairment is suspected as the cause of the crash, which remains under investigation.