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Fatal motorcycle-SUV collision in Polk County

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June 26th, 2022 by Ric Hanson

(Polk County, Iowa) – A man on a motorcycle died from injuries he suffered Saturday night, in Johnston. The Iowa State Patrol reports a 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee was traveling west on NW Beaver Avenue at around 10:21-p.m., at the same time a 2002 Harley Davidson motorcycle was traveling east. When the SUV turned onto NW 70th Avenue, the driver, 25-year-old Makenna Kathleen Streff, of Polk City, failed to see the approaching cycle operated by 33-year-old Landon Mark Crabtree, of Knoxville. The Jeep struck the motorcycle during the turn.

Streff was not injured in the collision. Crabtree was transported by Johnston EMS to Methodist Hospital in Des Moines, where he died. The crash remains under investigation.