(Clarke County, Iowa) – A car traveling in the wrong direction on Interstate 35 in Iowa, collided head-on with a semi tractor-trailer, Thursday, killing the driver of the car. The Iowa State Patrol reports a 2008 Chevy Impala driven by 82-year-old Larry Wayne Ross, of Osceola (IA) was traveling south in the northbound lanes at around 6:27-p.m., near mile marker 33, when the car struck a 2015 Peterbilt semi. The driver of the semi – 50-year-old Alsson F. Battin, of Rock Island, IL, tried, but was unable to avoid striking the vehicle.

Larry Ross was transported from the scene by Clarke County Ambulance to the hospital in Osceola, where he died from his injuries. He was not wearing a seat belt. The truck driver was transported to the hospital to be checked-out. The Patrol says he was wearing his seat belt.