The Iowa State Patrol reports one person died and two others were injured during a crash Thursday night in northern Iowa’s Butler County. A 2000 Ford F-150 pickup was traveling east on County Road C-33, about a mile east of Willow Avenue, when the vehicle drifted off the road and into the south ditch, where it struck a box culvert.

The driver of the pickup, 44-year old Matthew DeWitt, of Shell Rock, and a passenger, 28-year old Andrew Baker, of Waverly, were injured. Baker was not wearing a seat belt. Both were transported by ambulance to the hospital in Waverly. A second passenger, 41-year old Jeffrey DeWitt, of Shell Rock, who was wearing a seat belt, died at the hospital.

The accident, which happened at around 7:06-p.m., Thursday, remains under investigation.