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(Update) – Adair County injury accident

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April 10th, 2023 by Ric Hanson

(Greenfield, Iowa) – The Adair County Sheriff’s Office reports four-people were injured, with one person suffering serious injuries, during a collision Sunday afternoon northeast of Orient. In an update to our earlier report, Sheriff Jeff Vandewater said a 2016 Dodge RAM pickup driven by 70-year-old Judy Ann Sammons, of Orient, was facing west at the intersection of Henry A. Wallace Road and 300th Street, at a posted stop sign. A semi-truck same out of the south on Henry A. Wallace Road, and turned west onto 300th Street.

Sammons failed to see a 2016 Honda Odyssey van coming from the south and headed northbound, behind the semi. Sammons proceeded to continue traveling west, and in doing so, was struc by the van, driven by 55-year-old Laura Michelle Baker, of West Des Moines. Sammons suffered suspected serious/incapacitating injuries, and was transported by Adair County Ambulance to the Greater Regional Hospital, in Creston. She complained of neck pain, and has also suffered cuts and bruises.

Laura Baker was transported to the Adair County Memorial Hospital in Greenfield, also by an Adair County Ambulance. She complained of head, neck and abdominal pain. Two passengers in the van, 17-year-old Braden Baker and 19-year-old Brielle Baker, both from West Des Moines, also complained of pain and were transported to the hospital. Both vehicles sustained a total of $25,000 and were towed away. Sammons was cited for Failure to Yield.