A weekend accident in Allen County leaves a Texas man dead.

 

 The accident occurred Sunday, June 23, 2024, just before 7pm near the intersection of US-169 and Minnesota Road, just south of Iola.

 

64-year-old Donald Gaylord of Magnolia, Texas, was southbound in a 2011 Chevy Colorado when his vehicle crossed the center line. He then struck a trailer of a semi driven by 39-year-old Luis Alberto Martinez San Miguel of Davenport, Florida. Gaylord was pronounced dead at the scene while Martinez was uninjured.