Politics e2000 Iowa Capitol Insights Kate Thompson reports from the Iowa state capitol and beyond. The mark of a newspaper approved classified. Terms of use agreement Best viewed with Netscape Communicator .
Injured children scream in the dark as a police officer arrives at the scene of a violent crash.
He finds bodies strewn across the roadway after their van was struck head-on by a drunk driver. What had been a church youth group outing turned fatal after an impaired driver slammed into their van in a full-size sport utility vehicle. The children are screaming. Their youth pastor is dead, pinned into the seat by the steering wheel after being unable to swerve from the oncoming vehicle. Other children lying along the road do not cry - they are dead.