Four people were injured on Friday afternoon following a two-vehicle collision involving a horse trailer on Highway 218 near Olds, north of Mt. Pleasant. The Iowa State Patrol reported that a Ford F-450 pickup truck pulling a horse trailer was southbound on Highway 218 nearing mile marker 56 around 2:18 p.m. A Volvo SUV entering from School Street drove into the southbound lane and attempted to use the median to turn around. The SUV then crossed back directly into the path of the southbound lanes, where the oncoming pickup truck struck it broadside, troopers said.
Four people: ages 45, 21, 24 and 5, all from Southhaven, Mississippi. were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.