A Ben Carson presidential campaign volunteer died in a crash that left two other volunteers and a campaign employee hurt.
Carson tweeted he is suspending all campaign activities after the crash.
“(A) van transporting three campaign volunteers and a Carson campaign employee hit a patch of ice and flipped on its side where it was struck by another vehicle,” said a statement from the Carson campaign. “Three of the passengers, including the campaign staffer (who was) driving, are currently being checked out at Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, Iowa. One volunteer is being transported to the trauma center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska.”
Dr. Carson cancelled the rest of his campaign events to travel to Omaha to be with the family of the volunteer taken there, the statement said.
That volunteer, identified as 25-year-old Braden Joplin, later died at the hospital in Omaha.