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Teenage driver dies in eastern Iowa crash

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June 22nd, 2021 by Ric Hanson

The teenage driver of a pickup truck died Monday afternoon in eastern Iowa’s Jones County. The Iowa State Patrol reports 16-year-old Lincoln John Gravel, of Wyoming, Iowa, who was not wearing a seat belt, died at the scene, after the vehicle he was driving went out of control and entered a ditch, where it struck a utility pole.

The accident happened at around 2:50-p.m. as the teen was traveling eastbound on Jones County Highway E-45. Multiple agencies assisted at the accident scene.