(Bloomfield, Iowa) – A crash Wednesday evening in southeast Iowa’s Davis County resulted in the death of a man from Montezuma. The Iowa State Patrol reports a 1999 Chevy pickup driven by 79-year-old Michael Floyd Talbert, was pulling a recreational camper and traveling south on U-S Highway 63 near 230^th Street at around 7:22-p.m., when for reasons unknown, the pickup/trailer crossed the center line of the road into the northbound lanes.

The driver of a northbound Volvo semi tractor-trailer, 47-year-old Steve Charles Roloson, of Central City, swerved onto the shoulder to avoid the oncoming pickup/trailer, but the left side of the pickup hit the left side of the semi. The impact caused the camper to be destroyed. Talbert, who was wearing a seat belt, died at the scene.

The pickup came to rest on the southbound shoulder of the road, while the semi crossed over the southbound lanes and came to rest. The driver of the semi was not injured. The accident remains under investigation.