(Updated 7/20/25 with name of the fatal crash driver/victim)

(Des Moines County, Iowa) – The Iowa State Patrol says one person died and another was injured during a single-vehicle rollover crash in southeastern Iowa late Friday night. The accident happened in Burlington, at around 11-p.m., Friday. The Iowa State Patrol says a 2008 KIA Sorento was traveling south on Highway 99 at excessive speeds, when the driver lost control.

The car entered the west ditch near a driveway at 16015 Highway 99 and struck a culvert. The vehicle launched into the air and rolled several times before coming to rest on its top. The driver, who was identified late Saturday night as 20-year-old Kelsey Lou Orth, of Burlington, was ejected from the vehicle and died at the scene. A passenger, 18-year-old Ava Grace McCullough, of Burlington, was injured and transported by Burlington Fire to the local hospital.

The crash remained under investigation.