A man from Wayne County was injured Thursday in southern Iowa, when his motorcycle ran into the rear of a vehicle driven by a man from Audubon County. The Iowa State Patrol reports 33-year old Ian Harper, of Allerton, was operating a 2012 Harley Davidson XL-1200 Forty Eight motorcycle westbound on Highway 2 at around 2:15-p.m., Thursday, when he entered a construction zone and collided with the rear of a 2017 Mazda CX-5, that was stopped in traffic waiting for a pilot car.

The Patrol says Harper didn’t apply the brakes for some reason, prior to impacting the car, driven by 82-year old Klaus Kollatschny, of Kimballton. Harper was flown from the scene by air ambulance to a hospital in Des Moines.