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4 injured in Sioux County crash Thursday afternoon

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August 4th, 2023 by Ric Hanson

(Hospers, Iowa) – A collision between a car and a semi tractor-trailer in northwest Iowa, Thursday afternoon, resulted in four people being transported to the hospital in Orange City. The Iowa State Patrol reports a 1999 Chevy Malibu and a 2014 Peterbilt semi was traveling north on Highway 60 in Hospers, with the semi in the left lane, traveling faster than the car. As the semi nearly came abreast of the car, the driver of the Chevy, 28-year-old Dinora Sabillon-Diaz, of South Sioux City, NE., signaled a lane change, and moved left, into the side of the semi.

The car hit the right front corner of the semi before going sideways and hitting the front of the semi. The truck came to rest on the Highway, north of the intersection with Hospers Drive. The car came to rest in the median, north of Hospers Drive. The accident happened at around 3:30-p.m.

Dinora Sabillon-Diaz and her passengers: 49-year-old Edith Sabillon-Diaz, an eight-year-old child and a three-year-old child, all of South Sioux City, NE., were injured. None of the crash victims were wearing a seat belt.

The driver of the semi, 75-year-old Jerald William Ollerich, of Sioux Falls, SD, was not injured.