Update: Ames woman struck by a motorcycle last week has died
February 24th, 2026 by Ric Hanson
(Ames, Iowa) – In an update to our report last Thursday, the Iowa State Patrol, today (Tuesday) said a woman who was crossing a street in Ames and was struck by a motorcycle Feb. 18th, has died from her injuries. 80-year-old Margaret Suzanne Olson, of Ames, was crossing Lincoln Way near S. Russell Avenue at around 8-p.m. on the 18th, when she was hit by a 2025 Kawasaki motorcycle, operated by 31-year-old Steven Javier Salazar, of Ames. The cycle was traveling westbound on Lincoln Way when the accident occurred.
Salazar was not injured. Olson was flown by helicopter to Mercy Hospital, where she later died.




