LE MARS, Iowa — A Plymouth County jury has found a northwestern Iowa man not guilty in a fatal traffic accident near Le Mars in 2007.
Fifty-one-year-old Danny Robinson was charged with homicide by motor vehicle after a van he was driving struck a South Dakota woman.
The jury found him not guilty Wednesday.
The victim, 78-year-old Fern Nielson of Lake Norden, S.D., was hit near her car just minutes after she used a cell phone to ask for help following a traffic accident.
Nielson died at a Sioux City hospital.
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