SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa (KCAU) — Multiple people were taken to the hospital on Wednesday after multiple crashes happened near Spirit Lake.

Two crashes less than a few miles away from each other happened on Wednesday evening in Dickinson County.

According to the Dickinson County Sheriff's Office, a four-vehicle accident was reported at 4:49 p.m. near the intersection of Highways 9 and 71 in Spirit Lake.

Authorities claim a woman was driving a 2006 Chevy Equinox Eastbound on Highway 9 and struck a vehicle that was stopped for road construction, causing a chain reaction. The woman sustained incapacitating injuries and was transported by ambulance to a nearby hospital and then flown to a hospital in Sioux Falls. Her vehicle damage was estimated at a total loss of $10,000.

Dickinson County Sherif

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