One person died and two others were injured during a collision between a semi and a car early this (Tuesday) morning, in Polk County. The Iowa State Patrol reports the crash happened in the suburb of Pleasant Hill at around 1:23-a.m., when a semi stopped for a traffic light eastbound on Highway 163 and NE 80th Street, when the rig was hit from behind by an eastbound 2002 Cadillac Seville, driven by 34-year old Zachary Willer, of Pleasant Hill.

Willer and a passenger in his car, 23-year old Kyleigh Jeffrey, of Des Moines, were injured in the crash. Both were wearing seat belts. Willer was flown by Life Flight to Mercy One Hospital, Jeffrey was transported to the same hospital by Pleasant Hill EMS. A second passenger in the Cadillac, 23-year old Dean Goodenough, of Maple Park, IL., died at the scene. He was not wearing a seat belt. The driver of the semi, a 26-year old man from Minnesota, was not injured.

The crash remains under investigation.