A single-vehicle accident in Pottawattamie County Monday night claimed the life of one person and resulted in injuries to another. The Iowa State Patrol reports the driver of a 2013 Hyundai Elantra, 46-year old Melanie Thompson, of Avoca, who was not wearing a seat belt, died from her injuries after being transported by Council Bluffs Fire and Rescue, to Mercy Hospital in Council Bluffs. A passenger in the car, 9-year old Brianna Milledge, of Avoca, was injured and transported by CB Fire to Children’s Hospital, in Omaha. She was buckled-up according to the Patrol.

The accident happened at around 6:25-p.m. on westbound Interstate 80, near mile marker nine. Authorities say the car went out of control to the right, for reasons unknown, went down an embankment and rolled over before coming to rest on its wheels in a field to the west of I-80.