(LeMars, Iowa) – Sheriff’s officials in northwest Iowa’s Plymouth County report the driver of a semi-tractor trailer died Thursday, in a single-vehicle accident. Authorities received a call about the accident with driver entrapment, at around 8:45-a.m., Thursday. The crash occurred on County Road C-38 near Fawn Avenue.

Akron Fire, Akron EMS, and Plymouth County Deputies were dispatched to the scene.  An investigation at the scene found that a semi pulling a grain trailer was traveling east on C-38 near Fawn Ave.  The semi left the roadway driving onto the south shoulder and then into the south ditch where it rolled onto its passenger side.  The driver who was trapped was extricated from the semi. He suffered serious injuries and transported to Mercy One Hospital in Sioux City, where he later died.

The name of the accident victim was not immediately released.