(Central Poweshiek County) – A collision Thursday morning between two cars south of Brooklyn, in eastern Iowa’s Poweshiek County left one of the drivers dead. The Iowa State Patrol reports a Pontiac Bonneville driven by 70-year-old James John Jacobi, of Belle Plaine, was southbound on Highway V-18 just north of 460th Avenue, when a northbound Hyundai Sonata driven by 37-year-old Joshua Allen Klein, of Brooklyn, crossed the center line of the road, into the southbound lane.

James Jacobi tried to maneuver his car onto the shoulder to avoid the collision, but Klein’s car continued towards the Pontiac. The cars struck in an offset manner, driver’s side to driver’s side. Both vehicles came to rest in opposite ditches. The accident happened at around 7:40-a.m.

Jacobi – who was wearing his seat belt – died from his injuries at the scene.