(Greene County, Iowa) – A crash east of Coon Rapids Wednesday afternoon resulted in three people – all from Coon Rapids – being transported to hospitals in Carroll and Des Moines. According to the Iowa State Patrol, an SUV driven by 34-year-old Robert Edward Everett, III, was traveling south on Apple Avenue at around 4:35-p.m., just south of 320th Street, when for reasons unknown, the vehicle crossed the center line of the road and collided head-on with a Chrysler van.

Following the collision, the SUV continued southbound as it came to rest, overturned. The van entered the east ditch and also came to rest overturned.

The driver of the van – 41-year-old Curtis John Hofbauer, Jr., was transported to St. Anthony Hospital in Carroll. His 76-year-old passenger, Curtis John Hofbauer, Sr., was transported to Mercy Hospital in Des Moines by air ambulance. He was not wearing a seat belt. Robert Everett, III, was transported to the hospital in Carroll.

The crash remained under investigation.