Slater woman charged with vehicular homicide, drunk driving in fatal wrong-way Hwy. 30 crash

A woman involved in a fatal head-on collision east of Ames has been arrested on two counts of vehicular homicide.

Ashley Taylor, 41, of Slater, was allegedly driving a white 2017 Jeep Renegade in the eastbound lane of Highway 30 on May 28 in the wrong direction when she collided with a gray 2006 Chevy Impala driven by Christian Royston, 26.

The Story County Sheriff’s Office responded to the accident around 11:30 p.m. Royston was pronounced dead at the scene, while Taylor was transported by air ambulance to a Des Moines area hospital with serious injuries, according to a press release from the Story County Sheriff’s Office…

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