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(UPDATED) SUV strikes an eastern Iowa DOT Truck Wed. afternoon: 1 dead, 1 injured

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January 13th, 2023 by Ric Hanson

(Waterloo, Iowa) – (Update 8:05-p.m., 1/13/23: A woman from Cedar Rapids died and a man from Williamsburg was hurt, during a collision Wednesday afternoon on Interstate 80, in eastern Iowa. The Iowa State Patrol reports Troopers responded at around 1-p.m. to a multi-vehicle accident on I-80 eastbound, at mile marker 213 (west of Waterloo). An investigation determined a 2019 Jeep Cherokee driven by 64-year-old Joyce Renee Baumgarten, of Cedar Rapids, struck a 2013 International Iowa DOT plow truck that was on the left shoulder of the road, conducting a slow-moving Interstate maintenance project.

The driver of the DOT vehicle was identified as 52-year-old David Dellamuth, of Williamsburg. He was transported to the hospital in Marengo by Iowa County EMS.

The Patrol says Baumgarten died at the scene. She was wearing a seat belt. Other vehicles and drivers involved in the incident include a 2021 Hyundai Sonata, driven by 47-year-old Michael Razo, of Topeka, KS, and a 2013 Ford Edge driven by 23-year-old Alexis Sands, of Solon. Neither was injured in the collision.

The crash remains under investigation.