(Drakesville, Iowa) – A head-on crash in southeast Iowa’s Davis County, Wednesday evening resulted in a death, and two people injured. The Iowa State Patrol reports a 2017 Honda Accord was traveling north on Ice Avenue south of Main Street in Drakesville at around 5:45-p.m., when it crossed the onto the shoulder. The driver over-corrected, sending the car across the center line of the road and into the path of an oncoming 1999 Chevy Suburban, driven by 54-year-old James J. McKelvey, of Bloomfield.

The driver of the car died at the scene. Their name was being withheld pending notification of family. James McKelvey, and a passenger, 21-year-old Emma F. Beechy, of Bloomfield, were both injured, and transported by helicopter to Mercy Hospital in Des Moines.

The Patrol was assisted at the scene by the Davis County Sheriff’s Office, Bloomfield and Drakesville Fire Departments, Davis County Ambulance, and Mercy1 helicopter. The crash remains under investigation.