(Update) – Identity of a semi tractor-trailer driver killed in an eastern IA crash is released
November 21st, 2024 by Ric Hanson
(Iowa City, Iowa) – The Iowa State Patrol has identified the driver of a semi tractor-trailer who died in a crash Wednesday morning (Nov. 20th), north of Iowa City. The Patrol says 25-year-old Jeremy Rogers, of Nashville, TN, died when the 2021 Volvo semi he was driving, crashed into a bridge guardrail and rolled onto its left side. The crash happened as the semi was traveling eastbound on Interstate 80 at mile-marker 245 at around 6:15-a.m.
Rogers died at the scene. He was not wearing a seat belt. The semi was registered to a transport company out of Elk Grove Village, IL.