Officials with the Iowa State Patrol have released information about a fatal, semi versus pedestrian accident that took place in Pottawattamie County on July 16th. According to the report, a 2007 International semi driven by 27-year old Ian Russell Erickson, of Defiance, was traveling east on Interstate 80 at around 5:18-p.m., when the truck struck a man on the side of the road near a disabled vehicle.

39-year old Georgiy Goncharov, of Brooklyn, NY, died at the scene of the accident near mile marker 24. An investigation determined the semi left the lane to the right before striking Goncharov, who leaves behind a wife and two children.

The accident remains under investigation.