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Icy roads trigger multiple fatal and injury accidents across Iowa
State Patrol reports a deadly day on icy highways and several crashes. Stroud’s southbound car collided with an oncoming pickup driven by Ernest Alferts before a head on crash with Joyce Wendt. both Stroud and Wendt were injured and Alferts unharmed. University of Dubuque students mourn a Taiwan native Hui-Yun Chen, who died in a separate crash on Highway 61 involving Chun-Yi Lee. A third fatality occurred in Waterloo on Hawkeye Road with Troy James Mayhew injured and another driver killed. A jumble of three semis and grain blocked Highway 30 near Watkins. two drivers, Scott Clark and Edward Dolezal, sustained injuries while Kevin Montgomery was hospitalized. Additional incidents on Interstate 80 east of Oxford and a grass median crash near Malcom yielded injuries and traffic snarls.