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Fatal accident near Bayard Tuesday evening

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October 30th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

One person was killed and another injured during a collision between a car and pickup Tuesday evening in Guthrie County. The Iowa State Patrol says a 1997 Olds Cutlass driven by 23-year old Jacob Cody Stringer, of Bayard, was traveling west on Highway 141 at around 5:30-p.m., when his car hit a guard rail and veered across the centerline before hitting a 1997 Ford F-150 pickup. Stringer, who was not wearing a seat belt, died at the scene of crash west of Bayard. The driver of the pickup, 60-year old Laverne Joseph Tigges, of Adel, was trapped in his vehicle.

Tigges was extricated and flown to Mercy Hospital in Des Moines by Mercy Air 1. A report on his condition is not available. The accident remains under investigation.