One person was killed in an accident near Palo early Wednesday.
The crash happened at Covington Road and Chain Bridge Road around 2 am. The Linn County Sheriff’s Office says emergency personnel arrived on scene to discover a vehicle was traveling southbound on Covington Road when it entered the west ditch. The vehicle then rolled and caught on fire.
The driver was pronounced dead at the scene. The victim has been identified as 65-year-old Rodney Dean Boren of Cedar Rapids.
The accident remains under investigation.
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