Rock Rapids, Iowa– A George man has died, and a Minnesota man was taken to the hospital as a result of a crash near Rock Rapids on Friday, October 3, 2025.
The Iowa State Patrol reports that at about 2:20 p.m., 28-year-old Matthew Wieber of Benson, Minnesota, was driving a 2016 Peterbilt semi southbound on K60 (also known as Indian Avenue), three miles east of the east water tower in Rock Rapids — the Edna blacktop. They tell us that 64-year-old Steven Cuperus of George was eastbound on Highway 9 in a 2015 Ram pickup.
The preliminary report says only that the semi struck the Cuperus pickup in the intersection.
The Lyon County Ambulance took Wieber to Avera Merrill Pioneer Hospital. Cuperus was pronounced dead on the scene.
Cuperus’s body was sent to the Iowa State Medical Examiner’s Office in Ankeny for an autopsy.
The accident remains under investigation.
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