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Carson cancels events after crash injures staff

Posted at 11:43 AM, Jan 19, 2016
and last updated 2016-01-19 16:00:37-05

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has canceled his Tuesday campaign events after staffers were injured in a crash in Iowa.

His campaign says four people were injured in a crash Tuesday after the van they were riding in hit a patch of ice, flipped and was hit by another vehicle. The exact location was not specified.

Three people were taken to a hospital in Atlantic, Iowa, to be checked out, while another was taken to Nebraska Medicine in Omaha.

Carson canceled Tuesday’s campaign events in South Carolina and planned to travel to Omaha to be with the family of the volunteer in the hospital.

 

 

Earlier today in Iowa, a van transporting three campaign volunteers and one of our campaign employees hit a patch of ice...

Posted by Dr. Ben Carson on Tuesday, January 19, 2016