Rock Valley, Iowa– A Hull woman was taken to the hospital after an accident on the scene of another recent accident on the edge of Rock Valley on Thursday, October 13, 2022.
The Rock Valley Police Department reports that another accident had previously occurred at the location where 31-year-old Shelby Kiers of Hull was driving a 2004 Honda eastbound on Highway 18, on the edge of Rock Valley at about 4:50 p.m. They tell us that 41-year-old Katie Fredricks of Hudson, SD was also eastbound on 18 in front of Kiers in a 2012 Cadillac Escalade.
The report says that Fredricks stopped on Highway 18 to wait for a vehicle in front of her to turn onto 28th Avenue. Kiers admitted to looking at the semi in the ditch from the previous accident on the north side of the road, and she ran into the back of the Fredricks vehicle.
The Rock Valley Ambulance took Kiers to Hegg Health Center Hospital.
Kiers’s Honda sustained $6000 in damages, and Fredricks’s Cadillac Escalade sustained $8000 in damages.
At last report, no charges had been filed.
