Poweshiek Fatality Count Reaches 7
LANDUYT
Posted By: Marilyn Holmes
Date: 9/18/2015 at 08:26:54
The Grinnell (IA) Herald-Register
Nov. 15, 1965POWESHIEK
FATALITY COUNT
REACHES 7Poweshiek country recorded its seventh traffic fatality Thursday night as Albert Landuyt, of rural Montezuma, died in a one-vehicle accident.
Landuyt, 50, was returning home from Montezuma between 10 p.m. and midnight Thursday when his truck apparently went out of control and rolled into a ditch throwing him out. The pickup truck rolled over the victim and landed upright in the ditch. Death was instantaneous.
Danny Peters, a neighbor of the victim, noticed Landuyt's truck sitting in the ditch with its lights on about 11:50 p.m. and called authorities. Investigating officers speculated that Landuyt might have fallen asleep at the wheel. Damage to the vehicle was extensive.
The mishap occurred west of the Charlie Thomas corner about two miles west of highway 63 on a gravel road. Sheriff Wiley Taylor and deputy sheriff Ernest Mitchell investigated the accident.
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