DUBUQUE, IOWA – A nearly head-on crash in Dubuque Monday injured three people and sent them to area hospitals.
On September 12th, 2016, at 10:13 a.m., Dubuque Police & Fire Department personnel responded to a two-vehicle crash with injuries at the Northwest (N.W.) Arterial and Plaza Drive. A tractor-trailer, driven by Michael G. Wood, 70, of Yuma, Arizona, was traveling northbound in the eastern most lane of the N.W. Arterial. As Wood entered the intersection with Plaza Drive, David M. McGhee, 78, of Asbury, Iowa, driving a 2016 Honda CRV, attempted to turn left (or east) from the southbound turning lane of the N.W. Arterial onto Plaza Drive. The tractor-trailer collided nearly head-on with the Honda before careening off the road and crashing into a traffic signal pole located on the northeast corner of the intersection. Wood was entrapped in the tractor and had to be extricated.
Wood, McGhee, and McGhee’s passenger, Alice K. McGhee, 80, of Asbury, Iowa, were all transported by ambulance to local hospitals (Wood to Mercy and the McGhees to Finley). All three were later air-lifted to the University of Iowa Hospitals &Clinics where their current condition is unconfirmed. A passenger in the tractor-trailer was uninjured.
The investigation remains ongoing and no charges have been filed at this time. Both northbound lanes of the N.W. Arterial were closed at approximately 10:30 a.m. and remain so at the time this media release was issued. The lengthened road closure is the result of heavy equipment being needed to repair the traffic control signals damaged during the crash.
