MASON CITY, Iowa (AP) - Authorities have released the names of five people killed in a fiery Mason City crash.
Police in Mason City say an officer discovered the accident scene around 2:40 a.m. Monday after officials noticed that power had been knocked out to hundreds of customers. Officials say the accident apparently caused the short-lived outage.
On Tuesday the Mason City Police Department identified the driver as 20-year-old Zachary Hartley. His four passengers were identified as 17-year-old Donte Foster, 18-year-old Roderick Lewis, 14-year-old Sydney Alcorn and 19-year-old Alex Wiebke. All of them lived in Mason City.
The crash cause is being investigated. Mason City sits about 109 miles (176 kilometers) north of Des Moines.
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