(KIWA Staff Photo)Inwood, Iowa– Two people were taken to hospitals after a crash near Inwood on Saturday night, October 17, 2026.
The Lyon County Sheriff’s Office reports that just before 9:00 p.m., 62-year-old Tracy Ericson of Hawarden was driving a 2008 GMC pickup southbound on Highway 18, two miles south of Inwood. They tell us that 20-year-old Ashli Rus of Sioux Center was eastbound on 260th Street in a 2020 Kia.
The report says that Rus failed to stop for the stop sign and was struck in the driver’s area by the pickup.
The Canton-Inwood Ambulance took Rus to a Sioux Falls hospital. A passenger in the Ericson vehicle, 57-year-old Pam Ericson, was taken to Hegg Health in Rock Valley by the Inwood Rescue Squad.
Ericson’s GMC pickup sustained $10,000 in damages, and Rus’s Kia sustained $15,000 in damages. Both vehicles were considered totaled in the crash.
Rus was charged with failure to stop for a stop sign.
