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Carlisle woman identified as victim in fiery Polk County crash

Editor’s note: A previous version of this story misspelled the last name of the victim. The story has since been corrected.

POLK COUNTY, Iowa — The Polk County Sheriff’s Office has identified the victim killed in a fiery crash on Sunday as a Carlisle woman.

Shortly after midnight the Polk County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a crash in the 5700 block of SE Vandalia in Pleasant Hill. When first responders arrived on scene they found a single vehicle on its side and fully engulfed in flames.

According to the sheriff’s office, after firefighters extinguished the flames they found an adult female dead inside. On Tuesday afternoon the sheriff’s office identified the victim as 35-year-old Emily Ora Woolsey of Carlisle.

A preliminary investigation found that Woolsey was traveling eastbound on SE Vandalia when she lost control of the vehicle, hit a guardrail, and rolled into the ditch. The investigation into the crash is ongoing.

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