A Missouri man was injured during a crash this (Thursday) morning, in western Iowa’s Monona County. The Iowa State Patrol says 36-year old Gene Lawrence Odell, Jr., of Kansas City, MO., who was not wearing a seat belt, was transported by Burgess Ambulance to the Burgess Hospital in Onawa, following the accident that happened at around 6:20-a.m. on Interstate 29.

Odell was driving a 2016 Honda Accord northbound on I-29 above the posted speed limit, when he rear-ended the trailer of a semi that was traveling north in the right hand lane. After striking the trailer, the Honda spun off the road into the east ditch, before hitting a fence. The semi, driven by 59-year old Mikhail Kirilovich, of Lynwood, WA, pulled over onto the shoulder following the collision.

The State Patrol says speed and alcohol were factors in the crash.