MELCHER-DALLAS, Iowa — One person is dead and three are injured following a single-vehicle crash in Melcher-Dallas on Tuesday, according to an Iowa State Patrol crash report.
A car was driving south on Highway S45 around a set of "S"-curves around 5:15 p.m. on the Fourth of July.
After going around the first curve, the driver failed to navigate a left-hand curve and went off the road.
The car traveled into the ditch before vaulting over a driveway and striking a tree.
A backseat passenger, 34-year-old Whitney Brown of What Cheer, died of her injuries. She was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash.
The driver and the other two passengers were transported to a local hospital with minor injuries.
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