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Fatal accident in eastern Iowa, Wednesday

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June 3rd, 2021 by Ric Hanson

One person died during a single-vehicle rollover accident, Wednesday, in eastern Iowa’s Dubuque County. The Iowa State Patrol reports 34-year-old Wesley Carl Hames, of Farley, was driving a 1988 Chevy truck westbound on Highway 20 at around 11:30-p.m., when for reasons unknown, the vehicle went onto the shoulder, causing Hames to lose control. The truck entered the median and rolled over before rolling again across the eastbound lanes of traffic and coming to rest in the southbound ditch. Hames died at the scene. He was not wearing a seat belt.

The accident remains under investigation.