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SD man injured in a western Iowa crash

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March 12th, 2024 by Ric Hanson

(Whiting, Iowa) – One person was injured during a collision Monday night in Monona County. The Iowa State Patrol reports a car driven by 45-year-old David Martinez, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was stopped in the right-hand lane of southbound Interstate 29 at around 10:10-p.m., near mile marker 118. The vehicle did not have its lights on. A semi, driven by 53-year-old David Chumbley, of Halbur, was traveling south in the same lane.

When Chumbley saw the car, he swerved to the left to avoid striking it, but ended-up hitting the car. The collision caused the car to be pushed off of the road and into the west ditch. The semi continued south before coming to rest on the shoulder of the road.

Martinez – who was not wearing a seat belt – was flown by Wings Air Care to the UNMC in Omaha.