Iowa Woman Charged With Vehicular Homicide For Crash Near Dakota City

Posted: 06 February, 2013

DAKOTA CITY, Neb. (AP) - An Iowa woman has been charged with vehicular homicide for the Nebraska crash deaths of a 57-year-old woman and her 3-year-old granddaughter. Twenty-seven-year-old Heather Reisdorph, of Sioux City, Iowa, has pleaded not guilty to two misdemeanor counts. Authorities say her vehicle ran into the back of one that was waiting to turn left off U.S. Highway 75/77 south of Dakota City on Jan. 6. The impact pushed the vehicle into oncoming traffic, where it was struck by another vehicle. Patricia Oldenburg, of Homer, Neb., and her granddaughter, Regan Coenen, of Sioux City, Iowa, died. Eight-year-old Braden Coenen was injured.