(Knoxville, Iowa) – A single-vehicle crash Tuesday evening in Marion County resulted in the death of a woman who was a rear-seat passenger in an SUV. The Iowa State Patrol reports 34-year-old Whitney Marie Brown, of What Cheer, was a passenger in a 2013 Chevy Equinox driven by 49-year-old Tamara Goodlife, of Altoona, when Goodlife failed to negotiate an “S” curve on southbound Highway S-45, west of Knoxville.

The vehicle went off the road and into a ditch until it came to a driveway, and vaulted over it. The SUV then went airborne and struck a tree on the other side of the ditch. Brown was not wearing a seat belt, and died at the scene of the crash, which took place at around 5:15-p.m., Tuesday. Three other occupants of the vehicle were injured and transported to the local hospital.