(Percival, Iowa) – A collision between a car and and an SUV Saturday evening in FREMONT County, left two people in an SUV dead and three injured. All five victims were from Nebraska. According to the Iowa State Patrol, a 2021 Dodge Charger and a 2020 Jeep Wrangler, were both northbound on I-29 near mile marker 16, when the car went out of control and struck the SUV. The accident happened at around 7:38-p.m.

After the impact, the vehicles entered the ditch ditch and rolled over. The car came to rest on its top . The Jeep came to rest upright, in a field east of I-29. All of the occupants in the Jeep were ejected or partially ejected. Two of the occupants, a 14-year-old male and a 16-year-old female from Gretna, NE, died at the scene.

The remaining three SUV occupants were transported to the UNMC by LifeNet 1-1 helicopter, Glenwood Rescue, and Audubon LifeNet. They were identified as (the driver) 20-year-old Garrett Grossman, and 18-year old Hannah Devitt, both of Omaha, and a 15-year-old female, also from Omaha. The driver of the Dodge Charger, 26-year-old Rodelio Martinez, of Columbus, NE, was not injured. The names of the juveniles were not released. The Patrol says the juveniles were not wearing a seat belt. Grossman and Devitt were properly belted-in.

While the crash remains under investigation, alcohol is believed to have been a contributing factor.