(Clear Lake, Iowa) – Officials with the Iowa State Patrol, Tuesday, identified the driver of a vehicle that crashed during a pursuit early Sunday morning, in Clear Lake, as 22-year-old Zachary Hill, from Forest City.

According to the Iowa State Patrol, a 2015 Ford Fusion driven by Hill, was traveling at a high rate of speed in Clear Lake as it was being pursued at around 1:40-a.m., Sunday.  The car went out of control and struck a tree at 4th Avenue South and S Shore Drive. The vehicle then struck an unoccupied house and two legally parked vehicles (a 2021 Nissan Rouge and a 2016 Chrysler Town and Country), before coming to rest.

Hill was transported to Mercy One Medical Center in Mason City, where he was pronounced deceased. Clear Lake Fire assisted at the accident scene.