A man from Polk County died during a single-vehicle accident early Friday morning, in Greene County. The Iowa State Patrol reports 30-year-old Theodore Wayne Sanford McGinnis, of Des Moines, was driving a 2007 Chevy Impala on J Avenue, north of 330th Street, sometime between 4:30- and 5:00-a.m., his vehicle hit a pheasant. When his vehicle went onto the west shoulder of the road, McGinnis over-corrected, sending the car into the east ditch. Greene County 9-1-1 first received notice of the accident at around 6:33-a.m.

McGinnis – who was wearing a seat belt – died at the scene.