One person died, and another was injured during a single-vehicle accident this (Sunday) morning, in Taylor County. The Iowa State Patrol reports a passenger in the vehicle, 23-year old Clintin David Marshall, of Corning, who was not wearing a seat belt, died at the scene. The driver, 30-year old Jody Dee Reed, of Corning, who was wearing a seat belt, was flown from the scene to the UNMC in Omaha, by LifeNet Helicopter.

The Patrol says Reed and Marshall were traveling eastbound toward the town of Gravity on J-35/200th Street, when for reasons unknown, the 2011 Lincoln MKS they were in, went out of control. The Vehicle left the road and entered the east ditch before it struck a tree in the ditch, and came to rest. The accident happened at around 12:45-a.m.