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Fatal accident in Fremont County Friday night

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July 6th, 2013 by Ric Hanson

A single-vehicle rollover accident Friday night on the Iowa/Missouri state line in Fremont County, has claimed the life of a Hamburg man. The Iowa State Patrol says 48-year old James Dean Odell died at the scene after being ejected from the 2000 Ford Explorer he was driving as it rolled numerous times after entering a ditch and struck a utility pole. The man was not wearing a seat belt. A passenger in the SUV, 8-year old Wyatt Bartles, of Hamburg, was injured and transported by Hamburg Rescue to the local hospital. Bartles was properly restrained in his seat at the time of the crash, which occurred at around 8:45-p.m. on 330th Avenue, about one-quarter of a mile north of 322nd Street