(Henry County, Iowa) – Two people died and three others were hurt, during a single vehicle rollover accident Saturday afternoon southeast of New London, in southeast Iowa. The Iowa State Patrol reports a 2014 Chrysler Town & Country van was traveling west on Highway 34 at around 4:10-p.m., when for reasons unknown, the vehicle went off the road to the south, at mile marker 246 (Racine Avenue).

The vehicle crossed the east lanes of traffic and entered the south ditch, where it struck a parked truck, and then rolled onto its side and came to rest. Two of passengers, 50-year-old Sherry L. Reid, of Stockport, Iowa, and 73-year-old Judith M. Ellis, of Ollie, Iowa, died in the crash. The driver, 48-year-old Sean M. Reid, of Stockton, and two other passengers, 55-year-old Carol R. Johnson, of Fairfield, and 48-year-old Tammi L. Ellis, of Ollie, were injured.

Sean Reid and Carol Johnson were transported by helicopter to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Tammi Ellis went by Henry County Ambulance to the SE Iowa Regional Medical Center, in West Burlington.