Posted December 26, 2018 12:53pm
(KAIR)--A former Mayetta resident is dead, killed last week in a head-on crash on an Iowa highway.
22-year-old Christian Carter was a 2014 graduate of Royal Valley High School who currently resided in New Market, Iowa.
According to KMA radio news Carter was behind the wheel of a 1993 BMW around 8:20 Friday morning when he attempted to pass in a no-passing zone, colliding head-on with a 2017 Ford Expedition.
According to the Iowa State Patrol, Carter, who was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the wreck, was transported to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The driver of the Expedition required hospital treatment.
The fatal crash happened in Shenandoah, Iowa.
Carter will be laid to rest Friday morning following an 11:00 funeral service at the Mercer Funeral Home, in Holton.
He will be buried in the Hoyt Cemetery.
According to his obituary, Carter was a father of two, but was expecting a third child to join son Jace, and daughter Caytlin Marie.
He’s also survived by his fiance, Dakota Culley, of Shenandoah, Iowa.
Additional survivors include his mother, Amy Lawrence, and his father, Raphael.