A head-on crash at around 10:50-p.m. Saturday in Taylor County has claimed the life of a woman from Georgia. The Iowa State Patrol reports a 2001 Toyota Corolla driven by 23-year old Kellie Renee Staples, of Claxton, Georgia, was traveling north on Tennessee Avenue, when for reasons unknown, the vehicle crossed the center line into southbound traffic, and struck a southbound 2019 Ford Flex, head-on, south of Lenox.

Staples, who was not wearing a seat belt,  died at the scene. The driver of the Ford, 40-year old John H. Fraley, of Streator, Illinois, was not injured. The State Patrol was assisted at the scene by the Taylor and Adams County Sheriff’s Offices, Lenox Fire & Rescue, and Taylor County Ambulance.