(Kellerton, Iowa) – A two-vehicle crash in Ringgold County, south of Kellerton, Wednesday night, claimed two lives and resulted in one person being injured. The Iowa State Patrol reports a 2010 Chevy pickup driven by 54-year-old David Patrick Love, of Mount Ayr, was southbound on 170th Avenue (a gravel road) at around 8:45-p.m., approaching 110th Street. A 2022 Chevy pickup driven by 44-year-old Donna Kay Allen, of Afton, was northbound at the same location.

Both vehicles were traveling in or close to the center of the road and not yielding half of the roadway as they traversed a hill. The pickup drivers could not see each other coming, and collided, with their left front corners striking.

Following the impact, Donna Allen’s pickup bounced backwards, coming to rest on the east road edge. The other pickup veered off the road. Dispatch reports said there was a fire as a result of the collision. Both drivers died at the scene. Neither was wearing a seat belt. A passenger in the Allen pickup, 46-year-old Shawn William Allen, of Aften, was also not wearing a seat belt. He was transported by Mercy helicopter to Mercy Hospital.

Multiple emergency and law enforcement agencies responded to the scene.