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(Update/ISP correction) Dsm man dies in I-35 crash near Ames

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July 23rd, 2017 by Ric Hanson

(This is an Iowa State Patrol correction to their earlier Press Release w/regard to the name of the fatality). An accident late Saturday night in central Iowa’s Story County claimed the life of a Des Moines man and injured a woman. The Iowa State Patrol reports 25-year old Richard Lee Boner, of Des Moines, was a passenger in a 2004 Chrysler Sebring driven by 24-year old Katy Sueann Markham, of Des Moines. The vehicle was traveling south on Interstate 35 at around 11:15-p.m., Saturday, when it went out of control about three-miles south of Ames.

The car entered the median and rolled over. Boner, who was not wearing a seat belt, was ejected from the vehicle and died at the scene. Markham was wearing her seat belt. She was transported to Methodist Hospital in Des Moines by Mercy helicopter.

The accident remains under investigation.