Area Man Dies in Weekend Car Rollover
A Northeast Iowa man has died in a weekend accident in Allamakee County.
It happened shortly after 2am Sunday (May 1), on Highway 76, just southeast of Dorchester.
A car driven by 20 Benjamin Bednarski of Waukon, was southbound on 76, failed to negotiate a curve, and drove off the road. The car then entered a ditch, drove off a culvert, and rolled onto it's top.
A passenger, 20 year old William Johns of Dorchester, died of his injuries.
Bednarski and another passenger, 19 year old Brent Ziegler of Waukon, were taken by Caledonia Ambulance to Gunderson-Lutheran Hospital in LaCrosse, Wisconsin; a condition report was not available.
The accident remains under investigation by the Iowa State Patrol.