A truck driver from Wisconsin died Friday night, after the semi he was driving crashed off Interstate 80, east of the exit to Anita. The Iowa State Patrol says 68-year old Gerald J. Calaway, of Oneida, WI, who was not wearing a seat belt, was trapped under the steering column in the cab of the semi, and extricated by non-mechanical means. He was transported by Anita Fire and Rescue to the Cass County Memorial Hospital, where he later died.

The Patrol says the 2014 Freightliner semi he was driving, registered to Cal-Les ILLC, of Green Bay, WI., was traveling west on I-80 near the 72-mile marker at around 5:50-p.m., when the rig entered the median and continued traveling west for about 930-feet, before entering a deep ditch leading down to 770th Street in Cass County. The semi continued west and entered the north ditch on 770th before coming rest in the west ditch.

Anita Fire and Rescue and Wiota 1st Responders along with Medivac Ambulance and the Cass County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene.