A single-vehicle accident at around 11:23-p.m. Wednesday in Dallas County, has claimed the life of a Perry man. The Iowa State Patrol said 48-year old Michael Thomas Sloss was driving a 1994 Ford F-150 pickup on Park Street, in Perry, when the vehicle struck a parked car and went out of control. The pickup entered a residential yard and hit a tree and two parked vehicles. Sloss died at the scene. He was not wearing a seat belt. The accident remains under investigation.