PERRY, IA. (THECOUNT) — 18-year-old Ella Holtzen and 14-year-old Harrison Holtzen have been identified as the siblings killed in a two-vehicle crash near Perry, Iowa Tuesday morning.
The victims, both Hinton High School students, were both killed in a crash on their way to school early Tuesday morning.
According to the Plymouth County Sheriff’s Office, the teens were traveling in a vehicle on County Road K22 & Granite Avenue in Perry, IA in southwest Plymouth County, when the fatal crash occurred.
Although the exact cause of the crash is unclear, authorities say the roads were “100% covered with ice,” at the time, reports KITV.
The sheriff’s office says the students were driving northbound on K22 when they entered a curve and slid into the path of an oncoming pickup.
The driver of the pickup, 66-year-old William Samuelson of Sioux City, was not hurt.
The Iowa State Patrol and Plymouth County Sheriff’s Office are investigating the crash.
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Geo quick facts: Perry is a city in Dallas County, Iowa, United States, along the North Raccoon River. The population was 7,702 at the 2010 Census. It is part of the Des Moines–West Des Moines Metropolitan Statistical Area – Wikipedia.
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