(In an update to our report earlier today) The Iowa State Patrol has identified the victim of a fatal head-on crash in Carroll County. Authorities say the driver of a 1996 Toyota Camry, 57-year old Linda Lee Smith, of Coon Rapids, died in the crash that happened at around 1:50-p.m. Tuesday on Highway 71, south of 250th Street.

The Patrol says Smith was traveling south on Highway 71 when, for reasons unknown, her car crossed the centerline of the road and struck a 2004 Toyota RAV4, head-on. Both vehicles came to rest on the east shoulder of the road. Smith died at the scene. The driver of the RAV4, 26-year old Corie Jean Walsh, of Glidden, suffered non-life threatening injuries and transported to St. Anthony Hospital in Carroll, by Carroll County EMS.

The accident remains under investigation.