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'It felt like a nightmare': Witnesses describe hay ride crash in Keokuk County

'It felt like a nightmare': Witnesses describe hay ride crash in Keokuk County
WHAT LED UP TO THIS. ABOUT A HALF MILE DOWN THE KEOKUK COUNTY ROAD BEHIND ME IS WHERE THE HAY RACK RIDE WENT WRONG. WE SPOKE WITH TWO PEOPLE WHO RUSHED TO THE SCENE WHEN THEY HEARD ABOUT THE ACCIDENT. AND IT WAS JUST THIS HORRIFIC SCENE. WHAT I SAW WAS, IN A WAY, TRAUMATIZING COLLIN MCCREADY AND RIHANNA. ROBB SAY THE AFTERMATH OF THE HAY RACK RIDE CRASH SATURDAY NIGHT ON THIS STRETCH OF ROAD JUST OUTSIDE WILSHERE IS ONE THEY WILL NEVER FORGET. THERE WERE KIDS ON BOTH SIDES AND LIKE SPRAWLED OUT AND ALL KINDS OF WAYS AND LIKE CRYING AND WANTING THEIR PARENTS AND IT WAS HORRIBLE. COLLIN SAYS, STANDING BY WAS NOT AN OPTION, TELLING US ONCE ON SCENE, HE IMMEDIATELY JUMPED IN TO HELP THE FIRST PERSON HE SAW. A SEVENTH GRADE GIRL HE THOUGHT COULD BE SERIOUS, INJURED. I HELD HER HEAD, MAKE SURE SHE DIDN’T MOVE HER HEAD IN CASE SHE HAD ANY NECK INJURIES OR ANY BACK OR SPINAL INJURIES. BOTH COLLIN AND RIHANNA VOLUNTEERED TO HELP SCARE THE KIDS AS THEY WALKED THE TRAILS AT GRIFFIN PARK BEFORE THE HAY RACK RIDE. A PICKUP PULLING A FLATBED TRAILER WITH HAY ON IT DESIGNED TO BE A FUN EVENT ORGANIZED BY PARENTS OF SIGOURNEY SEVENTH GRADERS, AN EVENT THAT WENT OFF THE RAILS WHEN IT WENT WRONG. BOTH SAY THE DRIVER OF THE PICKUP TRUCK DID NOT STICK AROUND VERY LONG AND THE EXCUSE BY THE ORGANIZER WAS THAT HE WAS TOLD BY EMERGENCY SERVICES TO LEAVE THE SCENE. BUT I HAVE NEVER, EVER, EVER HEARD OF THE PERSON WHO CAUSED AN ACCIDENT BEING ALLOWED TO LEAVE THE SCENE. THEY ALSO SAY THERE WAS ALCOHOL BEING CONSUMED BY THE ADULTS, TELLING vlog THEY NEVER SAW THE DRIVER OF THE PICKUP DRINKING. BUT RIHANNA CLAIMS HE OFFERED HER BOYFRIEND A DRINK. ANY TIME SOMEBODY HAS EVER OFFERED ME ANY KIND OF THING THEY WERE CONSUMING IT THEMSELVES. IT IT’S ILLOGICAL TO ME THAT HE WOULDN’T HAVE BEEN DRINKING. IF HE’S OFFERING BEVERAGES TO PEOPLE, BOTH WANT THE TRUTH TO COME OUT. WE HAVE REACHED OUT TO THE KEOKUK COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE FOR ANSWERS. WE HAVE NOT RECEIVED A RESPONSE TODAY. IN KEOKU
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Updated: 6:25 PM CDT Oct 17, 2023
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'It felt like a nightmare': Witnesses describe hay ride crash in Keokuk County
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Updated: 6:25 PM CDT Oct 17, 2023
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Two community members are speaking out after a hay rack ride carrying Sigourney 7th-grade students crashed just outside What Cheer in Keokuk County Saturday night. "It was just a horrific scene," said Reanna Robb, who was on scene after the crash. It was part of an event that was supposed to be a fun night for some Sigourney seventh-grade students.The students took a haunted hike through Griffin Park before going on the hay ride. Robb and Collin MacCready had volunteered to work during the hike.Another person who was quickly on scene said he helped the first person he saw, a seventh-grade girl he thought could be seriously injured."I held her neck to make sure she didn't move her head," said Collin MacCready.Both MacCready and Robb said the driver of the hay ride left after the crash. Both said the adults were consuming alcohol, but did not see the driver drinking.vlog reached out to the Keokuk County Sheriff's Office Tuesday, but did not receive a response.

Two community members are speaking out after a hay rack ride carrying Sigourney 7th-grade students crashed just outside What Cheer in Keokuk County Saturday night.

"It was just a horrific scene," said Reanna Robb, who was on scene after the crash.

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It was part of an event that was supposed to be a fun night for some Sigourney seventh-grade students.

The students took a haunted hike through Griffin Park before going on the hay ride. Robb and Collin MacCready had volunteered to work during the hike.

Another person who was quickly on scene said he helped the first person he saw, a seventh-grade girl he thought could be seriously injured.

"I held her neck to make sure she didn't move her head," said Collin MacCready.

Both MacCready and Robb said the driver of the hay ride left after the crash. Both said the adults were consuming alcohol, but did not see the driver drinking.

vlog reached out to the Keokuk County Sheriff's Office Tuesday, but did not receive a response.