COLWELL, Iowa — Multiple people were hospitalized after a truck and an Amish buggy crashed in Colwell, Iowa, Tuesday afternoon, according to an Iowa State Patrol crash report.
The report claims 66-year-old Jim Whitmarsh's truck rear-ended a buggy while both vehicles were traveling east on 140th Street around 3:40 p.m.
The impact threw all six passengers from the buggy. None of the buggy passengers were wearing seat belts.
All six buggy passengers were injured, including the driver, 32-year-old Lavern Stauffer, 27-year-old passenger Teresa Stauffer, three children under the age of 6 and one infant.
All six were transported to Floyd County Memorial Hospital in Charles City, Iowa. The report had no information on the severity of their injuries.
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