Authorities in southwest say one person died Sunday in a crash near the town of Fontanelle. The Adair County Sheriff’s Department says a 2008 Ford F-150 pickup driven by 72-year-old Shirley Scott, of rural Fontanelle, left the road just before 11:30 A.M. The truck entered a ditch and struck an embankment before flipping or rolling numerous times and coming to rest on the driver’s side.

Rescue personnel from Fontanelle and the Adair County Ambulance responded to the scene. Scott was extricated from the vehicle and flown by air ambulance to Mercy Hospital in Des Moines, where she later died.

Contributed by Ric Hanson, KJAN, Atlantic