An Iowa teenager was killed in a head-on crash Sunday night in Mercer County.

According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, at 9:35 p.m., 16-year-old Elijah C. Mandich of Mount Moriah, was driving a Dodge 1500 south on US-65 three miles north of Princeton and 18-year-old Saige R. Boswell of Lineville, Iowa, was driving north on US-65. Mandich traveled into the northbound lane as he was trying to pass another vehicle and the pickup hit Boswell’s Ford Explorer head on.

Boswell was pronounced deceased at the scene at 9:45 p.m. Mandich was transported by Mercer County ambulance and then life flighted to Methodist Medical Center in Iowa for treatment of serious injuries.

According to the crash report, Boswell was wearing a seat belt. It is unknown if Mandich was wearing a seat belt.