(CORRECTION noted in second paragraph to indicate the series of events that occurred after the Sierra crossed the median)

An accident that claimed a life on Interstate 80 in Cass County, Monday, brings the death toll from crashes during the snow storm, to eight. The Iowa State Patrol said late this afternoon (Tuesday), that 28-year old Ariel Gruenberg, of Columbia, SC, died at the scene of the crash that happened at around 4:28-p.m. on I-80 eastbound, one mile east of the Wiota Exit.

Gruenberg was traveling eastbound in a 2011 GMC Sierra, when the vehicle went out of control and crossed the median into the westbound lanes of traffic. A 2004 Freightliner truck, driven by 40-year-old Michael Williams, of Neola, was westbound and hit Gruenberg’s vehicle head-on. Williams’ vehicle then crossed the median into the eastbound lanes. A 2014 Freightliner truck, driven by 41-year-old Amy Douglas, of Old Town, Florida, was eastbound and collided with Williams’ vehicle. A 2012 Ford F150 pickup, driven by 22-year-old Tyler Springer, of West Des Moines, was eastbound and hit the trailer of Williams’ vehicle.

On I-80 in eastern Iowa, police say 21-year old Josephina Mae Buffington, of Fairfax died, near Grinnell, at around 1:20 p.m., and another person died and two others were injured at 1:40 p.m., in a crash near Durant.

In northeast Iowa, two sisters from Decorah, 17-year-old Avery Arneson and 13-year-old Aiden Arneson, died a two-vehicle crash around 8:30 a.m. Monday on a county road in northeast Iowa. Four other teens were injured and hospitalized in that crash.

In Cedar Rapids, two men died in a crash on Interstate 380. Killed were 24-year-old Jacolby Jesse Burks, of Cedar Rapids, and 21-year-old Devion Martel Luster, of Dixon, Illinois.

A bus driver from Independence, MO., 53-year old Dana Easter, died and several people were critically injured in the pileup that closed Interstate 35 near Ames, Monday afternoon.