What started off as a single vehicle accident resulted in one person dead and two others injured early Saturday morning, in eastern Iowa. The Iowa State Patrol says the accident happened at around 1:40-a.m., when a 2007 Freightliner semi tractor-trailer driven by 37-year old Destom M. Kidane, of Tyler, TX., entered the ditch off Interstate 80 eastbound in Iowa County, near mile marker 209. The semi came back onto the road and overturned, coming to rest partially on the road and in the median. A passenger in a passing vehicle, 43-year old Stanislow Gruszka, of Palinfield, IL., stopped to assist. As Gruszka was going back to his vehicle, a secondary collision occurred between a 2017 Chevy Malibu driven by 56-year old Gregg Robert Vigna, of Plymouth, MI, and a 2005 Ford Freestyle SUV driven by 62-year old Donal Pirkl, of Victor, Iowa. 

The impact resulted in one of those vehicle striking Gruszka, causing fatal injuries. Kidane (The driver of the tractor-trailer), and Vigna, were transported by ambulance to the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics in Iowa City. The crash remains under investigation.