2 dead & 4 injured in a Mills County crash Friday afternoon
June 6th, 2025 by Ric Hanson
(Glenwood, Iowa) – A collision Friday afternoon west of Glenwood left two people dead and four others injured. The collision happened at around 4:20-p.m. at Highway 34 and 195th Street. The Iowa State Patrol reports a School Bus carrying the Council Bluffs/St. Albert Softball team and driven by 63-year-old Jeanette Marie Henderson, of Council Bluffs, was traveling east on Highway 34, when for reasons unknown, a 2024 VW SUV driven by 62-year-old Ralph Edward Schultz, of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, entered the road from the stop sign on 195th Street.
The SUV was struck by the 2025 Thomas School Bus, resulting in fatal injuries to Ralph Schultz and his passenger, 66-year-old Perla Manalastas Schutz, also from Ewa Beach, HI. Henderson, and three juvenile females on the bus were injured. Henderson and two of the juveniles were transported by EMS ambulance to Jenny Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs. The other juvenile was transported by their parent to CHI Mercy in Council Bluffs. The Iowa State Patrol said there were 24 people on the bus.
Those on the bus suffered what the Patrol said were suspected minor injuries. The Mills County Sheriff’s Office assisted the Patrol at the scene. Friday night’s softball games between St. Albert and Fremont-Mills were canceled because of the accident.