(Durant, Iowa) – A car traveling in the wrong direction crashed head-on into a semi tractor trailer, Saturday morning, resulting in the death of the car’s driver. The Iowa State Patrol reports a 2020 Honda driven by 46-year-old Rebecca McClaine, of Bettendorf, was traveling east in the westbound lanes of Interstate 80 north of Durant, in Cedar County, when her vehicle struck a 2014 Kenworth semi head-on near mile marker 277.  The accident happened at around 3:08-a.m., Saturday.

McClaine died at the scene. She was not wearing a seat belt.

The driver of the semi was not injured. He was identified as 65-year-old Stuart Anderson, of Northwood, Iowa. Following the collision, both vehicles came to rest in the median. The crash remains under investigation.