(Irwin, Iowa) – A collision in Shelby County Thursday, claimed the life of a 20-year-old man. The Iowa State Patrol reports Grant T. Gaer, of Irwin, was driving a 1995 Toyota Camry northbound on M-47 at around 3-p.m., just south of Irwin, when the vehicle crossed the center line of the road and the southbound lane. The car struck a transport van driven by 74-year-old Galen Dean Gaer, also of Irwin.

Grant Gaer died at the scene. He was not wearing a seat belt. The occupants of the transport van were not injured.