The Iowa State Patrol said late Thursday evening that one Cass County resident died while another was seriously injured during a head-on collision early Thursday afternoon, on Highway 92. The Patrol says a 2011 Ford Focus driven by 67-year old Mary Lou Ranney, of Massena, was traveling west on Highway 92 at around 1-p.m., when for reasons unknown, the car crossed the centerline about three-miles west of Massena, and hit a 2010 Dodge Ram 2500 pickup, head-on.

Ranney, who was wearing her seat belt, died at the scene. The driver of the pickup, 72-year old Robert James Bagshaw, of Massena, who was not wearing his seat belt, was flown by LifeNet helicopter to CHI Health/Creighton Hospital, in Omaha. Dispatch reports said he was suffering from severe back pain.

Following the impact, the car came to rest on the westbound shoulder of the road facing south, while the pickup came to rest on the eastbound shoulder, partially in the eastbound lane of traffic, facing northeast.

Deputies with the Cass County Sheriff’s Office, Massena and Cumberland fire and rescue personnel, and Medivac Ambulance, assisted the patrol at the scene of the crash. Funeral services for Mary Ranney are currently pending at the Steen Funeral Home in Massena.