Alton, Iowa — A truck driver from Omaha was taken to a hospital after an accident on Highway 60 on Monday, October 30th.
The Sioux County Sheriff’s Office reports that about 12:35 p.m., 49-year-old Jerry Full of Alton was driving a 4440 John Deere farm tractor pulling two 365-bushel gravity‐flow wagons loaded with corn southbound on Highway 60, two miles northeast of Alton. They say that 49-year-old Christopher Denson of Omaha, Nebraska was driving a 2014 Freightliner semi‐tractor pulling a freight trailer southbound on Highway 60 behind Full, when he struck the rear grain wagon. They say the impact caused the rear wagon to detach and spill the corn on the roadway, blocking both southbound lanes of Highway 60.
The Sheriff’s Office says the Alton Ambulance took Denson to the Orange City Health System Hospital.
The wagons sustained $10,000 in damage. The Freightliner sustained $100,000 in damage. Denson was cited on a charge of following too closely.
The Sheriff’s Office says the Alton Ambulance Squad, Alton Fire Department and Iowa Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Enforcement assisted them.
