(Primghar)– The Iowa State Patrol has released details into a two-vehicle crash in O’Brien county Saturday that claimed the life of a teenager and sent six other people to the hospital.
Authorities say 16-year-old Hope Fox of Paullina was eastbound on 400th Street at Highway 59 when she failed to stop for a stop sign and collided with a vehicle driven by 50-year-old Chris Holck of Okoboji, who was northbound on Highway 59. The impact caused both vehicles to go into the ditch on the northeast side of the intersection, with the vehicle driven by Fox rolling, ejecting Fox and three passengers.
One of the passengers in Fox’s vehicle, 16-year-old Desiree Crist, was killed in the crash.
Fox and three other passengers in her vehicle, 17-year-old Timothy Rosenboom, 16-year-old Karl Kruse and 17-year-old Lucas Schurle were all taken by ambulance to Baum Harmon Hospital in Primghar with incapacitating injuries. They are all from the Hartley area.
Holck and his wife, 51-year-old Kathleen Holck, sustained non-incapacitating injuries. They were also taken by ambulance to Baum Harmon Hospital.
A 1994 Ford driven by Fox sustained an estimated 2,500-dollars in damage; damage to the vehicle Holck was driving was estimated at 10-thousand dollars.
A guy wire on a utility pole owned by MidAmerican Energy sustained about 100-dollars in damage; along with a sign owned by the O’Brien County Road Department.
The crash, which remains under investigation, took place around 10:15 p.m. Saturday.
