(Linn County, Iowa) – A man traveling in an SUV was critically injured Friday night, when he lost control of his vehicle and crashed near Cedar Rapids. The Iowa State Patrol reports 64-year-old James Henry Wick, III, of Cedar Rapids, was driving a 2011 Jeep Wrangler northbound on I-380 near the U-S Highway 30 overpass, at around 10:15-p.m., when the vehicle drifted-off of the road and into the median.

When the SUV struck a guardrail and began to spin, Wick – who was not wearing a seat belt – was ejected through the roof of the vehicle. He was transported by ambulance to St Luke’s (University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics) in Cedar Rapids.