(Plymouth County, Iowa) – A boy on a dirt bike died Saturday morning in northwest Iowa, when the motorcycle collided with an International truck that was pulling a grain trailer. The Iowa State Patrol says the unidentified 11-year-old was traveling southbound on a private driveway in the 22,000 block of C-38 near Merrill, when the cycle entered the traveled portion of the road and struck the left side of the grain trailer being pulled by the eastbound truck. The crash happened at around 10:40-a.m.

The boy died from his injuries at the scene. The 45-year-old truck driver was not hurt.