A single-vehicle accident at around 12:15-a.m. today (Sunday), claimed the life of a Hamilton County man. The Iowa State Patrol reports 52-year old Monte M. Dilliner, of Stanhope, was riding a 2002 Kawasaki motorcycle eastbound on Highway 175 in Webster County, when the cycle drifted off the road and onto the right shoulder.

When Dilliner lost control of the machine, it rolled over and ejected him.  The man came to rest on the north shoulder of the road. He was pronounced dead the scene.