(Rural Osklaloosa, Iowa) – A collision between a  mid-size SUV and a tractor northwest of Oskaloosa, Friday night, left two people dead and two others injured. All of the crash victims are from Oskaloosa. According to the Iowa State Patrol, a 2018 Subaru Outback driven by 43-year-old Sy Yang was traveling east on Highway 163 at around 8:50-p.m., at the same time 68-year-old Gary Edward Lisk, of Oskaloosa, was driving a John Deere tractor pulling a tiller implement. The tractor and implement were traveling eastbound on the right shoulder of the road.

When Lisk started to merge to the left, number one lane, the SUV struck the left rear side of the towed tiller, causing a front compartment (cabin) intrusion into the SUV as the vehicle was in the number two right lane. Sy Yang and 45-year-old Rachel Anne Yang died at the scene. Two others in the Subaru, 22-year-old Kaylah Ntsais Yang and 18-year-old Benjamin Ntuj Txheem Yang, were injured. They were transported by ambulance to the Mahaska Health hospital in Oskaloosa. Edward Lisk was not hurt in the collision.

The crash remains under investigation.