OWA CITY, IA : 2 dead in separate Iowa crashes in rural Mason City earlier in the day on Sunday, 16th June 2019

A Texas man is dead in a Sunday night Interstate 80 crash in Johnson County caused by a wrong-way driver.

It was one of two fatalities reported Sunday by the Iowa State Patrol. The second crash took place in rural Mason City earlier in the day.

In the Johnson County crash, Robert H. Sawyer, 64, of Nocona, Texas, died when his vehicle was struck by a wrong-way driver. The crash was reported about 9:30 p.m. in the westbound lanes of Intersection 80 near mile marker 234. Troopers said those injured were Stephen D. Lucore, 32, of Iowa City, identified as the wrong-way driver, and Mercedes Quevas, 58, no address given. The report did not indicate which vehicle she was in. The driver of the third vehicle was Michael F. Griffin, 34, of Memphis, Tenn., who was not injured.

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