(Des Moines, Iowa) – The Iowa State Patrol reports two separate crashes this weekend claimed two lives. At around 9-p.m. Saturday, 19-year-old Reese Jones, of Ottumwa, died when the 2006 Yamaha motorcycle he was operating collided with a pickup truck in Davis County. The crash happened while Jones was fleeing from law enforcement. The Patrol says Jones was traveling at a high rate of speed south on Highway 63 in Bloomfield, when his cycle hit a 2007 Ford F-150 pickup that was stopped at intersection of Highway 63 and Highway 2. Jones died at the scene. The driver of the pickup, 17-year-old Jason Rich, of New London, Iowa, was not injured.

And, at around 11:15-a.m. Saturday, a man when the John Deere tractor he was operating, was struck from behind by a 2016 Dodge Grand Caravan. The accident happened as the van was traveling south on Highway 330 in Marshall County. The tractor – driven by 86-year-old Clarence E. Borton, of Albion – was southbound on the highway after turning from a private driveway.

After the van – driven by 22-year-old Morgan Weiglet, of Albion – hit the tractor from behind, the tractor left the road to the right and overturned in the ditch. Borton fell off the tractor and died at the scene.

Morgan Weiglet and a passenger in the van, 22-year-old Dylan S. Dare, of Albion, were transported to Unity Point Hospital by ambulance.