(West Branch, Iowa) – A crash involving multiple vehicles in eastern Iowa’s Johnson County Sunday night, left at least three people with serious or life-threatening injuries. Preliminary information from the Iowa State Patrol indicates the crash began at around 9:25-p.m. on Interstate 80 near mile marker 252 (between Iowa City and West Branch), when one of the vehicles that was traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes collided head-on with one vehicle before colliding with two other vehicles.

A fourth vehicle traveling westbound struck the wrong-way vehicle, while another westbound vehicle struck part of the first (wrong-way) vehicle.

The vehicles involved in the crash included a 2025 Nissan Altima, a 2011 Lexus ES 350, a 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee, a 2024 Volvo semi, and a 2015 Honda CR-V. It’s not clear by the initial report, which vehicle was traveling in the wrong direction, and no names the conditions of those involved in the crash, have been released at this time.