January 19, 2016
By Rebecca Kaplan
By Rebecca Kaplan
Neurosurgeon Ben Carson (click here) canceled all of the day's remaining campaign events Tuesday after three volunteers and a staffer were involved in a car accident requiring medical care.
According to a statement released by the campaign, a van transporting the group hit a patch of ice and flipped on its side, where it was struck by another vehicle. One volunteer, 25-year-old Braden Joplin, is being transported the trauma center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, while the other three passengers, including the staffer, are being checked out at Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, Iowa. The campaign says they are alright.
Joplin is a student at Texas Tech University who has been in Iowa volunteering for the Carson for a "significant amount of time," his campaign said.
Carson has spoken with Joplin's family as well as his attending physician. Carson will travel to Omaha this afternoon to be with the family.
"Dr. Carson is asking people to join him in prayer for all the individuals and families involved," the statement said.
Carson had two events in South Carolina that were closed to the press on his schedule Tuesday.
