(Afton, Iowa) – A Union County teen was seriously injured during a single-vehicle accident Wednesday afternoon, north of Afton. The Iowa State Patrol reports 16-year-old Tyler Shane Kiss, of Afton, was driving a 2011 KIA Soul northbound on Creamery Road at around 4:45-p.m., when the car went out of control and struck a bridge guard rail.

The vehicle then ramped across a small river and impacted the embankment before it flipped several times. Shane Kiss was ejected from the car as it flipped. He was not wearing a seat belt. The teen was flown by Life Flight to Mercy Hospital in Des Moines.