(Calhoun County, Iowa) – The teenage driver of a pickup truck died Wednesday morning, after his vehicle collided with a semi northeast of Lytton, in northwest Iowa. According to the Iowa State Patrol, the accident happened at around 7:05-a.m. at U-S Highway 20 and Fletcher Avenue, when a Ford F-150 pickup driven by 15-year-old Cadyn Oscar Ogden, of Rockwell City, failed to stop at the posted stop sign, as the vehicle was traveling north on Fletcher Avenue. Dense fog was present at the time of the crash.

The pickup collided with an eastbound Mack truck driven by 71-year-old Richard Larence Kanne, of Lake View (IA). Following the collision, the pickup came to rest in the south ditch, while the semi ended-up in the median. Cadyn Ogden, who was not wearing a seat belt, died from his injuries at the scene. Ogden was a sophomore at South Central Calhoun High School. It is homecoming week for South Central Calhoun. Wednesday night’s homecoming activities were postponed out of respect for Ogden’s family. Richard Kanne was injured in the crash, but the report said he was not transported to a hospital.

The crash marked the second fatal accident in that occurred in nearly the same area, that also involved a teenager. As we reported, Tuesday afternoon, a teenager from Rock Valley died when the SUV he was driving was struck by a semi. That crash occurred near the junction of U-S Highway’s 75 and 18. The Patrol has identified the person who died in the crash as 17-year-old Axel De Santos, of Rock Valley. A second teen, 17-year-old Dominic Olvera Flores, of Rock Valley was injured in the crash and eventually flown to a hospital in Sioux Falls.