(Allison, Iowa) – One person died during a single-vehicle accident Thursday afternoon, in eastern Iowa’s Butler County. According to the Iowa State Patrol, 69-year-old Gene Chinander, of Allison, died at the scene of the crash at around 2:45-p.m., Thursday. Authorities say Chinander was traveling south on Highway 14 in a 2019 RAM truck, when he failed to stop at the intersection with Highway 3. His truck left the road and struck a legally parked semi trailer in a parking lot.

The accident remains under investigation. KETV in Omaha reports Gene Chinander, longtime Iowa high school football coach, was the father of Nebraska Huskers Defensive Coordinator Erik Chinander. Erik Chinander was an offensive lineman for the Iowa Hawkeyes from 1998 to 2002. He’s been Nebraska Defensive Coordinator since 2018, when he followed Scott Frost to Nebraska from the University of Central Florida.