An accident involving multiple motorcycles and an SUV Tuesday evening in Pottawattamie County has left one person dead, and at least two others critically injured. The Daily NonPareil reports the nearly head-on crash happened between 8:30-and 8:45-p.m. on Old Lincoln Highway, north of Council Bluffs.

Witnesses told Omaha television station KETV that three motorcycles were heading south on the two-lane highway when they collided with another motorcycle carrying two people traveling north. A man riding the motorcycle traveling north was pronounced dead at the scene. The sheriff’s office and others said he was traveling at a high rate of speed.

The persons on the three southbound motorcycles were said to have been related. A husband and wife were on separate bikes, and the third bike had two people riding on it. The motorcyclist who died at the scene was wearing a helmet. Two other motorcyclists were transported in critical condition to the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. A fourth person on one of the cycles and the driver of the SUV were not hurt.

The accident remained under investigation late Tuesday night.