(Iowa City, Iowa) – A semi-tractor-tranker trailer accident in eastern Iowa Sunday afternoon, claimed the life of a man from Indiana. The Iowa State Patrol reports 65-year-old Robert Wayne Swiedals, of Clear Lake, IN., died at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, in Iowa City, after the 2020 Peterbilt he was driving ran off Intertstate 80 westbound, near mile marker 260. The accident happened at around 1:15-p.m. Officials say the semi is registered to RJ’s Transporation, LLC, out of Rosedale, LA.

The truck & tanker it was pulling entered the north ditch. Swiedals was ejected from the cab and flown from the scene to the hospital. The accident remains under investigation by the ISP. Johnson County HAZMAT, Cedar County Sheriff’s deputies, DOT MVE officers and AirCare assisted at the scene.