(Polk County, Iowa) – A collision Monday morning in central Iowa’s Polk County, east of Rising Sun, resulted in three adults and two teens being injured. According to the Iowa State Patrol, a 2019 Honda Insight driven by 74-year-old Bruce Kyle Spates, of Overland Park, Kansas, was traveling south on NE 112th Street at around 9:15-a.m., and had stopped at the posted intersection before pulling away from the stop sign and in front of a 2014 Buick Enclave (SUV) driven by 38-year-old Cody Bryan Hedgecock, of Agency (IA).

The impact caused the car to roll down an embankment and become submerged in water. The SUV was sent spinning following the collision, and came to rest in the median. Both drivers were injured in the crash. Three other passengers in the SUV, 37-year-old Katie Hedgecock, 16-year old Peyton McKenzie Hedgecock and 14-year-old Asa Cole Hedgecock, all of Agency, were also injured. Occupants of the SUV were transported by ambulance to Mercy One Hospital in Des Moines. Bruce Spates was transported by LifeFlight helicopter to Methodist Hospital in Des Moines.

Numerous agencies assisted at the crash scene, Monday morning.