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Fatal accident in NE Iowa, Sunday afternoon

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February 6th, 2023 by Ric Hanson

(Rural Sumner, Iowa) – One person is dead and another was injured, during a collision Sunday afternoon in northeast Iowa’s Bremer County. The State Patrol reports the crash happened at around 3:10-p.m, in rural Sumner. Officials say a 2007 Lexus ES350 driven by 22-year-old Carter John Harris, of St. Cloud, FL., failed to yield at the stop sign for County Highway C-33 and County Highway V-56.

The car struck the driver’s side of a 2023 Hyundai Elantra, driven by 22-year-old Derrius Grey Taylor-Ly, of Altoona (IA). Both vehicles came to rest in a ditch northeast of the intersection. Both drivers were wearing seat belts, but Taylor-Ly died at the scene.

Harris was transported by Sumner EMS to a local hospital, for treatment of minor injuries. The crash remains under investigation,