Nick Hytrek
MERRILL, Iowa -- A driver was found dead in a semitrailer after a fiery crash early Monday in Merrill.
Plymouth County emergency responders received numerous calls of an accident and fire at Jackson Street and U.S. Highway 75 at 3:40 a.m.
Sheriff's deputies arriving at the scene found a semitractor and trailer engulfed in flames in the 100 block of Jackson Street.
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An initial investigation determined the semitrailer was southbound on U.S. 75 and failed to negotiate the curve. The truck left the highway, traveled through the west ditch and a business parking lot, crossed Jackson Street and struck a tree in a residential yard, the Plymouth County Sheriff's Office said in a news release.
The driver was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver's name will not be released until proper identification is made at the state medical examiner's office.
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