(Story City, Iowa) – One person died and two others were injured in a three-vehicle chain-reaction accident late Tuesday night in central Iowa. The Iowa State Patrol reports the three vehicles, a 2017 Nissan Rogue, a 2001 Triumph Daytona motorcycle, and a 2008 Suzuki GSX-R600 motorcycle, were traveling northbound on Interstate 35 near mile marker 125, at around 11:03-p.m., when the driver of the Nissan changed lanes, and was struck by the Triumph motorcycle.

The operator of the Suzuki motorcycle took evasive action by laying the bike down. The cycle came to rest on the roadway. The operator of the Triumph motorcycle, 31-year-old Jeffrey Lawrence, of Grimes, died in the crash. The operator of the SUV, 50-year-old Scott Peel, of Ankeny, was injured and transported to Methodist Hospital, in Des Moines. And, the operator of the Suzuki motorcycle, 26-year-old Daron Kent, of Des Moines, was injured, but not transported to a hospital.

The crash remains under investigation.