MELCHER-DALLAS — A What Cheer woman died in a fatal car accident outside Melcher-Dallas on Tuesday.

Traffic records show that on Tuesday evening, Whitney Marie Brown, age 34 of What Cheer, was driving southbound on Highway S45 as a passenger in a 2013 Chevy Equinox, moving through a series of S-curves, when the driver lost control of the vehicle. The vehicle went off the road and into the ditch until it came to a driveway and vaulted over it, going airborne and striking a tree on the other side. According to the Iowa State Patrol, Brown was not wearing a seatbelt and died as a result of the accident. There were three other passengers in the vehicle and all were transported to a hospital with minor injuries.