(Anita, Iowa) – The Iowa State Patrol has identified a truck driver who died early Saturday morning when his rig crashed into a bridge pillar north of Anita. Authorities say 53-year-old Terrance Glenn Allen, of Las Vegas, Nevada, died in the crash on Interstate 80 at around 12:30-a.m., Saturday. The Patrol says the 2020 Volvo semi Allen was driving was traveling east in the westbound lanes of the Interstate, when the vehicle struck the bridge pillar at Exit 70.

Allen was wearing a seatbelt. He died at the scene. The Patrol was assisted at the crash site, by the Cass County Sheriff’s Office, and Cass EMS.