Sioux Center, Iowa– A Sioux Center resident was airlifted to a Sioux City hospital after a car versus pedestrian accident in Sioux Center on Thursday, June 8, 2023.
The Iowa State Patrol reports that at about 10:05 p.m., 27-year-old Corey Peters of Le Mars was driving a 2018 Chevy southbound on Highway 75 at 19th Street Southeast, between the north and south entrances for the frontage road.
The report says that 35-year-old Sixto Abel Chavez Lopez of Sioux Center was running across the highway and Peters struck him in the southbound lane.
The Mercy One helicopter took Abel Chavez Lopez to Mercy One-Sioux City Hospital.
The trooper says the Sioux Center Police and Fire Departments, the Sioux County Sheriff’s Office, and Stockton’s Towing assisted with the response to the accident.
