Two Taken To Hospital When Terragator, Gas Truck Collide

Sioux Center, Iowa — An Akron man and a Hawarden man were taken to the hospital after an accident near Sioux Center on Monday, April 25, 2022.

The Iowa State Patrol reports that at about 8:35 a.m., 43-year-old John Guthridge of Akron was driving a 2012 Terragator sprayer southbound on Elmwood Avenue or K30, six miles west of Sioux Center. They say 51-year-old Bryan Dekkers of Hawarden was eastbound on 390th Street or B40 in a 2012 Freightliner tanker straight truck.

The report says that the Terragator had a stop sign but failed to yield. The vehicles collided in the intersection causing the Terragator to tip over on the left side.

The Sioux Center Ambulance took both Guthridge and Dekkers to Sioux Center Health Hospital.

The Terragator sprayer sustained $30,000 in damages, which was enough to total the vehicle, and the Freightliner tanker, which was owned by Co-Op Gas & Oil of Sioux Center sustained $35,000 in damages.

Guthridge was charged with Failure to Obey a Stop Sign and Yield the Right of Way.

The Sioux County Sheriff’s Office, the Sioux Center Police Department, Sioux Center EMS, the Sioux Center Fire Department, and the Iowa Department of Transportation, Division of Motor Vehicle Enforcement assisted at the scene.

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