There were three accidents to start off the month of May, Saturday, with two crashes resulting in fatalities. The Iowa State Patrol says a crash in northeast Iowa’s Winneshiek County resulted in one dead and another injured. The crash happened at around 4:20-p.m., Saturday, when a southbound 2009 Toyota Corolla traveling in the northbound lane of Pole Line Road, near Decorah, collided with a northbound 2012 Ford F-150 pickup.

The driver of the car, 53-year-old Andrew Nesset, of New Richmond, WI., was pronounced dead at the Winneshiek Medical Center. He was not wearing a seat belt. The driver of the pickup, 75-year-old Lyle Phillips, of Decorah, was hurt and transported by ambulance to the same hospital. He was wearing a seat belt. The accident remains under investigation.

The second fatal crash occurred in Clarke County, at around 11:40-p.m., Saturday. The Patrol says a 2015 Ford F-150 driven by 20-year old Brian Rosales, of Osceola, went out of control on a gravel road and slid into a ditch before striking a driveway embankment and hitting an unoccupied 2012 Dodge 2500 pickup, that was parked in the driveway. A passenger in the Rosales pickup, 38-year old Jose Murillo-Rangel, of Osceola, died at the scene of the crash. Rosales was seriously injured and transported by Clarke County EMS to the Clarke County Hospital. Neither man was wearing a seat belt. The accident remains under investigation.

And, in the southeast part of the state, a man from Burlington was struck while riding his bicycle on S. Main Street, in Burlington. The accident happened at around 6:50-p.m. The Patrol says a Ford F-150 pickup driven by 61-year-old Michael Fairlie, of Burlington, was travel southbound, when the bicyclist, 52-year-old Reynaldo Lopez, of Burlington, failed to obey a stop sign, and entered the intersection with Elm Street.

The pickup hit the bike in the middle of the intersection. Lopez was transported by ambulance to the local hospital, and later flown by helicopter to the University of Iowa Hospital, in Iowa City. The accident remains under investigation.