(Iowa City, Iowa) – A head-on crash early Tuesday afternoon in Iowa City resulted in the death of an SUV driver. The Iowa State Patrol reports a 2008 Ford Escape driven by 74-year-old Cynthia M. Asmussen, of Iowa City, was traveling westbound around a right-hand curve at Black Diamond Road SW/Hazelwood Avenue, when the vehicle crossed the center-line of the road and hit a 1994 Mack Dump Truck head-on. The accident happened at around 12:45-p.m.

Asmussen died at the scene. The truck driver – 39-year-old Benjamin B. Burton, of Grundy Center, was injured, and transported by ambulance to the University of Iowa Hospital, in Iowa City. The accident remains under investigation.