(Sioux Center Ambulance – KIWA Staff Stock Photo)
Sioux County, Iowa, east of Hudson, SD — Three people were taken to a hospital after a crash on the extreme western side of Sioux County on Tuesday, November 10, 2026.
The Sioux County Sheriff’s Office reports that at about 6:05 p.m., 23-year-old Emma Heine of Vermillion, South Dakota, was driving a 2011 Chevrolet Impala westbound on 360th Street, four miles east of Hudson, SD, on the Iowa side of the Big Sioux River. They tell us 23-year-old Shelby Haverhals was driving a 2007 Ford Fusion westbound on 360th Street in front of Heine, and had slowed down to turn left onto Dipper Avenue. The report says Heine struck the back of the Haverhals Ford in the intersection.
The Sioux Center Ambulance took Heine, Haverhals, and a child passenger to the Sioux Center Hospital.
The Heine Chevrolet and the Haverhals Ford sustained about $10,000 in damage each.
Heine was charged with following too closely and no seatbelt.
The Sioux County Sheriff’s Office tells us the Sioux Center Fire Department, Sioux Center Ambulance Squad, and Sioux Center Police Department assisted them with the response to the crash.
