(Milo, Iowa) – The Iowa State Patrol reports a second fatality accident has occurred in central Iowa’s Warren County, in less than 24-hours. On Monday (April 25th), at around 12:30-p.m., a 2008 Chevy Silverado pickup driven by 79-year-old John Lester Dittmer, of Milo, was traveling south on Highway S-31 northeast of Milo, when the vehicle left the road and entered the east ditch. The pickup crossed a field and Nevada Street, before coming to rest in a field just south of Nevada Street. Dittmer died at the scene.

The other accident took place at around 3:50-p.m. Sunday, near Pleasantville. The crash between a pickup and a car resulted in the death of 82-year-old Glenna Clarke, from Knoxville. A crash report indicates she was crossing Highway 5 from Highway 316 between Hartford and Pleasantville when a pickup slammed into the driver’s side of her car.

The crash report says the driver and passenger in the truck were not injured. The crash remains under investigation.