One person died and two people were injured during separate accidents Friday night in northern Iowa’s Worth County. The Iowa State Patrol reports 65-year old Johnnie Lee Waslick, of Mason City, died in a crash that took place at around 9:30-p.m. on southbound Interstate 35, just north of Highway 9. Authorities say Waslick was driving a 2011 Ford Focus in the southbound inside lane. A 2017 Chevy Tahoe Police SUV was stopped on the inside shoulder-lane providing advance warning of a traffic accident ahead, when the car struck the SUV from behind. The Ford came to rest on the shoulder of the road, while the Tahoe was pushed into the median, facing east. Waslick, who was wearing a seat belt, was transported by Forest City Ambulance to Mercy Hospital, where he died from his injuries. Injured in the crash was 30-year old Deputy Zachary Schrupp, who was treated and released. Mercy Air Med, Hanlontown and Fertile Fire Department assisted the Patrol at the accident scene. The crash remains under investigation.

And, at around 7:50-p.m., a semi traveling southbound on I-35 near mile marker 207 in Worth County, entered the median and continued in the median until it became stuck on the bridge supports at the 203 Interchange, in the median. The driver, 70-year old Thomas WIlliam Torkelson, of New Hampton, was injured, and transported by Life Flight to Mercy Hospital in Mason City. The Patrol says he was wearing his seat belt.