SIGOURNEY – A 2 vehicle crash on Friday night resulted in the death of a Sigourney man.
The Iowa State Patrol reports that at around 10pm on Friday night, 31-year-old Samuel Dereus of Prairie City was driving westbound on Highway 92 near 285th street in a Chevrolet pickup truck when the vehicle crossed the centerline and hit a Chevrolet pickup truck driven by 74-year-old Franklin Morris of Sigourney in a head-on collision. When responders arrived, Morris was pronounced dead at the scene and Dereus was flown to the University of Iowa by Aircare.
The accident remains under investigation by the Iowa State Patrol, who was assisted on the scene by the Keokuk County Sheriff’s Office, the Sigourney Fire Department, the Keota Fire Department, Keokuk County EMS, and University of Iowa Aircare.