Four separate accidents in the eastern half of Iowa, Sunday, claimed a total of five lives. Authorities say a collision killed two people in southeast Iowa’s Lee County. The Iowa State Patrol says the collision occurred around 1:15 a.m. Sunday on Iowa Highway 2, about 4 miles west of Donnellson. Troopers say 28-year-old Robert Boyd, of Kahoka, Missouri, was headed west when he failed to negotiate a curve, overcorrected and crossed the center line. His vehicle struck a sport utility vehicle being driven by 63-year-old Laverne Faulkner. The patrol says Faulkner and his passenger, 39-year-old Michael Faulkner were killed. They lived in Farmington. Boyd was taken to the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics in Iowa City for treatment.

56-year old Brenda L. Houf, of Bloomfield, died at around 7:15-a.m. Sunday in a Van Buren County crash. Houf was driving a 2005 Saturn Vue westbound on Highway 2 when the SUV went out of control and entered the south ditch before rolling several times. Houf was not wearing her seat belt. She died at the scene.

55-year old Susan E. Slaney, of Hedrick, died at the scene of a single-vehicle crash that happened at around 4-p.m. Sunday, in Wapello County. The Patrol reports Slaney’s 2005 Ford truck was traveling east on 142nd Street, when it left the road to the right and vaulted a driveway before rolling several times and coming to rest on its top in the south ditch. The woman was wearing her seat belt. The accident remains under investigation.

And, at around 9:30-p.m.  Sunday, 75-year old Larry Goodwin,  of Fredericksburg, died on a single-vehicle crash in Bremer County. Goodwin was driving a 2017 Ford pickup westbound on Highway 93, when the vehicle crossed the center line and entered the south ditch. The pickup traveled a short distance before hitting an embankment located at Lifeline Drive and went airborne before landing in the parking lot of a Dollar General Store. The truck rolled and came to rest against a light pole. Goodwin, who was not wearing a seat belt, died at the scene. His passenger, 67-year old Audrey Goodwin, also of Fredericksburg, and who was wearing a seat belt, was transported by helicopter to a hospital in Waterloo.