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Fatal rollover accident in Fremont County

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November 14th, 2023 by Ric Hanson

(Rural Shenandoah, Iowa) – A semi tractor-trailer rollover accident Tuesday afternoon, northwest of Shenandoah, claimed the life of the vehicle’s driver. The Iowa State Patrol reports a 2019 Mack tractor-trailer driven by 67-year-old James Herman Kinney, of Council Bluffs, was traveling north on 370th Avenue, south of 150th St., when it partially left the road.

The semi traveled onto the right shoulder for several hundred feet and then left the road to the right. When Kinney over-corrected back on to the road, the weight shifted in the trailer, causing the tractor and trailer to overturn onto its right side in the traveled portion of northbound 370th Street. The accident happened at around 12:10-p.m.

After Kinney was freed from his seat belt, life saving measures were immediately performed, but he died from his injuries at the Shenandoah Hospital. The Patrol was assisted at the scene by the Fremont and Montgomery County Sheriff’s Offices, and Shenandoah Rescue.