(Dyersville, Iowa) – Two people from Cedar Falls died in a crash that occurred Tuesday evening in eastern Iowa’s Dubuque County. The Iowa State Patrol says a 2018 Chevy Equinox driven by 20-year-old Miranda Lynn Held, of Cedar Falls, and a 1999 Sterling sanitation vehicle (garbage truck) driven by 32-year-old Adam Ray Linden, of Sherrill, were traveling east on Highway 20 at around 5:13-p.m. While the truck was waiting to turn north onto Olde Castle Road, Miranda Held tried to pass vehicles in the turning lane.

Her Chevy rear-ended the garbage truck. Held, and a passenger in the Equinox, 21-year-old Samuel Jon Linck, of Cedar Falls, died in the crash, which remains under investigation.

The Patrol was assisted at the crash scene by Farley Fire & EMS, Farley Police, Dyersville Police, the Dubuque County Sheriff’s Office, Iowa DOT MVE, and  the Dubuque County Medical Examiner.