A chain-reaction, two-vehicle crash on a Minnesota interstate involving a deer claimed the life of a beloved north-central Iowa high school coach.
The wreck occurred about 8:55 p.m. on Jan. 29 east of Austin along Interstate 90, the State Patrol said.
A Subaru SUV struck a deer on westbound I-90 and came to rest in the road before a Nissan SUV collided with the disabled vehicle, according to patrol.
Kent Shultz, 61, of Osage, Iowa, a retired social studies teacher and coach of various girls’ sports in the Rudd-Rockford-Marble Rock School District, was a passenger in the Subaru and died at the scene, the patrol said.
Sarah Jean Shultz, 60, his wife, was driving, sustained non-life threatening injuries, and was taken by emergency personnel to a hospital in Austin, the patrol’s statement read.
The Nissan’s driver, Amanda Rebecca Dunlap, 36, of Austin, was not hurt.
Kent Shultz had a “passion for education and just human beings in general, and wanted to see them succeed,” said High School Principal Nick Johnson.
He joined the School District in the early 1990s and coached girls basketball, junior high school track and high school softball over the years until his retirement in 2021, the principal said.
