MAPLETON MAN KILLED IN CRASH

A MAPLETON MAN WAS KILLED AND A SIOUX CITY RESIDENT WAS INJURED MONDAY NIGHT IN A TWO VEHICLE CRASH.

THE IOWA STATE PATROL SAYS 29 YEAR OLD ROBERT PALMER DIED IN THE ACCIDENT AT HIGHWAY 141 AND SIOUX STREET IN MAPLETON.

PALMER WAS A PASSENGER IN A VEHICLE DRIVEN BY 29 YEAR OLD LENLEY RAY SCHOFIELD OF SIOUX CITY.

SCHOFIELD WAS DRIVING SOUTHBOUND ON 141 WHEN HE LOST CONTROL OF HIS VEHICLE.

IT CROSSED THE CENTER LINE AND INTO THE PATH OF A TRUCK DRIVEN BY 24 YEAR OLD JOSEPH DAGGETT OF GEORGE, IOWA.

THE TRUCK STRUCK THE PASSENGER SIDE OF SCHOFIELD'S CAR AND PUSHED IT ONTO A CURB NEAR THE INTERSECTION.

DAGGETT WAS NOT INJURED. SCHOFIELD WAS TRANSPORTED TO AN ONAWA HOSPITAL.
NEITHER PALMER OR SCHOFIELD WERE WEARING SEATBELTS.