Three injured in Highway 14 accident north of Grundy Center

By: 
Robert Maharry

A near head-on collision between two vehicles at the D-35 turnoff north of Grundy Center on Highway 14 Thursday left a Steamboat Rock woman with serious injuries that required treatment at Covenant Hospital in Waterloo.
           
According to the Grundy County Sheriff’s Office, Michael Heard of Steamboat Rock, with passenger Cathy Heard, was headed northbound and made a left turn onto D-35 at about 4:30 p.m., the blacktop road that leads to Holland, when Donald Fleshner of Janesville—driving a 1999 Ford pickup pulling a Titan horse trailer—struck Heard’s 2013 GMC truck.
           
Mr. Heard and Mr. Fleshner were treated at the Grundy County Memorial Hospital, but Ms. Heard required additional attention at Covenant, where she was transferred by ambulance for upper torso injuries.
           
The estimated damage on Heard’s vehicle is $20,000 after most of the front end was destroyed, and damages to Fleshner’s vehicle and trailer are projected at $15,000, a total loss. Traffic was rerouted for approximately two hours as the scene was cleaned up and investigated.
           
No citations have been issued, and the accident remains under investigation. State troopers, the Iowa DOT and Grundy Center Fire and Ambulance all assisted on the scene. 
 
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