(Osceola, Iowa) – A crash Friday afternoon (Dec. 1st) in southern Iowa’s Clarke County left one-person dead and another critically injured. The Iowa State Patrol reports the crash happened at around 1:35-p.m. on Highway 34, west of Osceola. Authorities say a 2022 Chevy pickup driven by 91-year-old Jack C. England, of Osceola, was traveling east on the highway, west of 160th Avenue, when for reasons unknown, the vehicle crossed the center line of the road.

The pickup collided head-on with a westbound 2015 Lexus SUV, driven by 33-year-old Tiffany L. Oswald, of Murray. Jack England died at the scene. Oswald was transported from the scene by Methodist LifeFlight helicopter, to Methodist Hospital in Des Moines.

The Patrol was assisted by the Clarke County Sheriff’s Office and Osceola Police. According to the latest data from the Iowa Department of Transportation, 339 people have died so far this year on Iowa roads. That’s 24 more than at the same point in 2022. Over the last five years, an average of 338 people have been killed in statewide crashes annually.