(Sac City, Iowa) – One person died in a single-vehicle accident Thursday night, in Sac County. According to the Sac County Sheriff’s Office, 27-year-old Samantha Ann Nissen was driving a 2018 Chevy Equinox in the area of Perkins Avenue/M-68 and 340th Street at around 10:50-p.m., when for reasons unknown the vehicle left the road and entered a ditch before striking a tree. Nissen died at the scene. Her body was being sent to the State Medical Examiner’s Office to determine the cause of death, but authorities say there was no indication of foul play.

A preliminary investigation determined the direction of travel from the tire patterns indicated there was no sudden braking or changing of direction before the vehicle left the road. The crash remains under investigation by the Sac County Sheriff’s Office.

Additional details are currently not available.