(Waukon, Iowa) – A collision that occurred at around 6:50-p.m. Wednesday in northeastern Iowa, claimed the life of a motorcyclist. The Iowa State Patrol reports a pickup truck and a motorcycle were both traveling north on Highway 76 in Allamakee County, when the pickup left the road to make a U-turn in order to proceed southbound. The motorcycle,  operated by 60-year-old Kerry Gene Nuehring, of Waukon, collided with a trailer the pickup was pulling, causing Nuehring to be ejected from the cycle. He died at the scene.

The driver of the pickup, 32-year-old Cody Gene Bauer, of Dubuque, was not injured. The crash remains under investigation.