Eric Smith Death – An Arizona man has been identified as the semi-truck driver who was killed in a single-vehicle crash Friday near Tiffin. Eric Smith, 55, of Show Low Arizona, was driving a 2022 FRHT semi-truck Friday morning around 4:30 a.m. on Interstate 80.
He was driving westbound near mile marker 236 when the truck left the interstate and hit a tree in the ditch, then caught fire, according to an Iowa State Patrol crash report. Smith was killed in the crash.
The Iowa State Patrol was assisted in responding to the crash by the Tiffin and Oxford fire departments.