CEDAR RAPIDS – Three people, including a baby, were taken to a hospital after a loaded trailer detached from a pickup and caused an accident Monday, police said.
Emergency personnel wait for firefighters to stabilize a minivan that came to rest down an embankment along East Post Rd. SE near the intersection with Trailridge Rd. SE on Monday, Dec. 12, 2011, in southeast Cedar Rapids, Iowa. According to Cedar Rapids police Lt. Jerry Potter, an adult female, an infant and a 15-year-old child were extricated, by Cedar Rapids firefighters, from the minivan they were traveling in after it was involved in a collision with a city-owned pick-up. The three were transported to Mercy Medical Center to be checked for injuries. (SourceMedia Group News/Jim Slosiarek)
Richard Raim, 51, of Springville, was northbound on East Post Road SE in a city-owned pickup when a trailer loaded with skid loader separated from it near Trailridge Road SE, police said. The skid loader hit a southbound van driven by Sarah Fopma, 42, of Marion.
Fopma’s van went into the a ditch and came to rest on its side. Fopma and her children, Josephine Fopma, 15, and Julia Fopma, 2 months, all had to be extricated from the van. All three were taken to Mercy Medical Center, where they were treated and released.
Raim, who was not injured, was cited for failure to use required tow equipment.
