DES MOINES, Iowa — One man is dead and two others are in the hospital with serious injuries after a head-on crash on MLK Jr. Parkway Friday afternoon, according to the Des Moines Police Department.
Police identified the person killed as 42-year-old Des Moines resident Lyndell Lamont Brown.
DMPD and the Des Moines Fire Department responded to the accident south of MLK Jr. Parkway and Prospect Road just before 1 p.m. following multiple calls about a serious crash.
The preliminary investigation found Brown and the other two victims were driving northbound on MLK in a 2002 Pontiac Grand Prix before crossing the center line and crashing into a southbound 2015 Freightliner semi-box truck.
Witnesses told police the Pontiac was "driving erratically and at a high rate of speed" just before the crash.
DMPD did not release the names of the other two victims, but did say they remained hospitalized with serious injuries Friday evening. They are both expected to survive.
MLK Jr. Parkway was closed for hours between Hickman and Prospect Roads. The road reopened just before 9 p.m. Friday.
DMPD said their traffic unit is continuing to investigate the crash Saturday.
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