(Evansdale, Iowa) – A crash between a motorcycle and two trucks Thursday afternoon in eastern Iowa’s Black Hawk County, resulted in the death of a man on a motorcycle. The accident happened in a construction zone on Interstate 380 southbound at mile marker 69, near Evansdale. According to the Iowa State Patrol, the accident occurred at around 3:05-p.m., when a 2016 Harley Davidson motorcycle went out of control as it was slowing upon approach to traffic ahead, which included a 2020 Ford pickup truck. When the cycle operated by 24-year-old Ethen Edge, of Waterloo, went out of control, it slid into the pickup.

A 2018 Ram truck also tried to slow down, but the driver was unable to avoid striking Edge, who died at the hospital. The drivers of the pickups, 51-year-old Corey Simon, of Waterloo, and 31-year-old Joshua Stiner,of Post Falls, Idaho, were not injured in the crash. The crash remained under investigation.

The Patrol was assisted at the scene by Evansdale and Waterloo Police, Black Hawk County Sheriff’s Deputies, Evansdale Ambulance, Iowa DOT MVE (Motor Vehicle Enforcement) and other DOT personnel.