A single-vehicle accident in southern Iowa’s Decatur County, Saturday afternoon, claimed the life of a 56-year old man. The Iowa State Patrol says Jerry Dwayne Smith, of Lamoni, died after his 1995 Ford F-250 pickup slowed before crashing through a wooden guard rail at around 3:40-p.m., about a mile north of Lamoni.

The vehicle was traveling northbound over a bridge on Smith Street (a gravel road), near the intersection with 150th Street, when the accident occurred. The pickup came to rest on its top. Smith, who was wearing a seat belt, died at the scene. The crash remained under investigation.