A head-on crash Sunday evening in Mills County claimed the life of a man from Missouri. The Iowa State Patrol reports 76-year old Johny Joe Ford, of Maryville, MO., died at the scene of the crash on Highway 34 near mile marker 15. The accident happened at around 5:25-p.m.  The Patrol says Ford was traveling eastbound in a 2018 Toyota Prius, when for reasons unknown, the vehicle crossed into the westbound lane and collided with a 2008 Infinity Q45 driven by 48-year old Michael Anthony Vasquez, of Malvern.

Vasquez was critically injured and transported by LifeNet to the UNMC in Omaha.