(Neola, Iowa) – A truck driver from Florida died, and his passenger was injured, Friday, during a semi tractor-trailer rollover crash in Pottawattamie County. The Iowa State Patrol says the accident happened at around 9:36-a.m. on Interstate 80 westbound, near mile marker 28.

Authorities report a 2022 Freightliner semi driven by 42-year-old Alain Hernandez Rodriguez, of West Palm Beach, Florida, went out of control and entered the median, where it struck a light pole and rolled onto its side. Rodriguez died at the scene. He was not wearing a seat belt.

His passenger, 23-year-old Jose Armando Valdez, of Miami, FL, who was also not wearing a seat belt, was injured and transported by ambulance to Mercy Hospital.