Eagle Grove man free on bond until Iowa Supreme Court considers his case.

The Eagle Grove man who ran a stop sign in November,2023 resulting in the death of a teen and serious injury to his mother is free after posting bond and has asked the Iowa Supreme Court to consider his case. Last Thursday,July 3rd, Iowa District Court Judge Angela Doyle sentenced 39-year-old Logan Christensen to one year in prison for first offense Operating While Intoxicated. However, Christensen has appealed his case to the Iowa Supreme Court and after posting a $2000 appeal bond Thursday, he is out of jail until a decision is affirmed by the Iowa Supreme Court. Christensen is required to stay in touch with his attorney. Christensen will not have to begin serving his sentence on the OWI charged until his appeal with the Iowa Supreme Court is decided. If the decision is affirmed by the Iowa Supreme Court, Christensen would be required to serve his one-year sentence in the Webster County Jail in Fort Dodge. Last May, a Webster County Jail found Christensen not guilty of vehicular homicide but guilty of operating while intoxicated.  The case centers around an accident at Union Avenue and 110th Street in northeastern Webster County in which Sara Sanga and her 13-year-old son Kyle Hilbert were returning home to Hardy when their northbound Toyota Camry was hit by a Ram pickup truck driven by Logan Christensen. The impact from the Christensen truck sent the Sanga car into the ditch and later rolled on to its hood where it came to rest. Hilbert was pronounced dead at the scene. Sanga was airlifted to a hospital in Des Moines with a head injury and broken ankle and ribs. Christensen told law enforcement authorities at the scene he was driving the truck and state that prior to getting behind the wheel he had consumed alcohol including “two Captains and Cokes.  In court records, Christensen’s blood test results came back positive for cocaine and THC, which is the active ingredient in marijuana and indicated a blood alcohol content of .041. A blood alcohol content of .08 is presumed intoxicated under Iowa law.