A Taylor County man died Tuesday after the van he was driving collided with a semi in southwestern Union County. The Iowa State Patrol reports 79-year old Leonard Page, of Lenox, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash on Highway 25, northeast of Lenox. Officials say Page was traveling southbound at around 5:15-p.m, when for reasons unknown, the 2002 Ford van he was driving crossed the center line of the road and collided head-on with a northbound 2007 Freightliner driven by 59-year old David Werner, of Mason City.

Pages’ body was transported to the State Medical Examiner’s Office in Ankeny for an autopsy. The accident remains under investigation.