A three-vehicle crash in northwest Iowa’s Cherokee County, Thursday morning, resulted in a death and two injuries. The Iowa State Patrol reports a Cherokee County Secondary Roads Department grader was traveling westbound on county road C-63 at around 10:18-a.m., dressing the road shoulder gravel, when a 2018 GMC SUVn driven by 76-year-old Denise Betts, of Alta, rear-ended the grader.

A 2013 Kawasaki motorcycle operated by 74-year-old Everett Paeper, of Aurelia, rear-ended the SUV. A passenger in the SUV, 97-year-old Naomi Benna, of Storm Lake, died from her injuries, at the Cherokee Regional Medical Center. Betts and Paeper were injured in the crash, and transported to the same hospital. The Patrol says Paeper was wearing a helmet. Benna and Betts were wearing their seat belts.

The driver of the grader, 46-year-old Kelly Ebel, of Cherokee, was not injured. The accident remains under investigation.