--- title: Ben Carson Suspends Campaigning After Staffer Car Crash description: Ben Carson has suspended Tuesday's campaign events after three campaign volunteers and an employee were injured in a car crash in Iowa. canonical: https://time.com/4185723/carson-iowa-car-crash-campaign/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-19T19:59:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T20:12:23.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Carson Suspends Campaigning For The Day After Staff Injured in Car Crash og:description: All four are being treated at two diffent hospitals og:url: https://time.com/4185723/carson-iowa-car-crash-campaign/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt03a1a0ff93fed379/6988793bcf40a892a6c417d7/gettyimages-502115300.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Ben Carson Holds New Hampshire Town Hall Meeting og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Carson Suspends Campaigning For The Day After Staff Injured in Car Crash twitter:description: All four are being treated at two diffent hospitals twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt03a1a0ff93fed379/6988793bcf40a892a6c417d7/gettyimages-502115300.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Carson Suspends Campaigning For The Day After Staff Injured in Car Crash  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Updated: Dec 13, 2023 8:12 PM UTCPublished: Jan 19, 2016 7:59 PM UTC  Ben Carson listens to a question during a town hall meeting at Nashua Community College in Nashua, New Hampshire, U.S., on Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015. Ben Carson listens to a question during a town hall meeting at Nashua Community College in Nashua, New Hampshire, U.S., on Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015.Bloomberg—;Bloomberg via Getty Images  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Updated: Dec 13, 2023 8:12 PM UTCPublished: Jan 19, 2016 7:59 PM UTC Ben Carson has suspended Tuesday’s campaign events after three campaign volunteers and an employee were injured in a car crash in Iowa. According to [a statement](https://www.bencarson.com/news/news-updates/statement-on-iowa-car-accident-from-the-ben-carson-for-president-2016-campaign) from the campaign, the van carrying the four people hit a patch of ice and flipped on its side, after which it was struck by another vehicle. Three of the passengers are currently at Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, Iowa, while the fourth is being transported to the trauma center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska. “Dr. Carson has spoken with the family of the volunteer being transported to Omaha, as well as the attending physician,” the statement says. “Dr. Carson has cancelled all remaining campaign events today and will be traveling to Omaha this afternoon to be with the family during this difficult time.” Some other presidential candidates tweeted their support Tuesday afternoon: > [](https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/689539901243596800) > [](https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/689539370509025280) > [](https://twitter.com/RickSantorum/status/689530641738776577) > [](https://twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/689562196947369984) > [](https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/689561774287224832) Carson has been [slipping in the polls](http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/ia/iowa%5Frepublican%5Fpresidential%5Fcaucus-3194.html) in Iowa as he [faces unrest and turnover](http://time.com/4181582/ben-carson-campaign-turmoil-iowa/) in his campaign headquarters. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4185723/carson-iowa-car-crash-campaign/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4185723/carson-iowa-car-crash-campaign/"},"headline":"Carson Suspends Campaigning For The Day After Staff Injured in Car Crash","datePublished":"2016-01-19T19:59:54.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T20:12:23.000Z","description":"All four are being treated at two diffent hospitals","url":"https://time.com/4185723/carson-iowa-car-crash-campaign/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic","Dr. Benjamin S. 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