(Grinnell, Iowa) – (updated/edited)  The driver of a pickup truck died and one other person was injured, during a collision this (Thursday) morning on Interstate near Grinnell. According to the Iowa State Patrol a semi carrying an oversized load blew a tire near mile marker 185 on eastbound I-80, at around 7:15-a.m.

The semi pulled-over and parked on the shoulder of the interstate. A Ford F-350 pickup serving as a pilot vehicle, was parked behind the semi on the shoulder. The driver of the pickup, 55-year-old Brenton Fregia, of Troutman, NC, was outside of the vehicle attending to the semi with a flat tire.

An eastbound semi struck the rear of the pickup and the disabled semi. Brenton Fregia was critically injured and later died at the hospital in Grinnell. A woman who was injured in the crash was also transported by Grinnell EMS to Unity Point Hospital in Grinnell.