(UPDATED) (Corning) – A motorcycle accident Wednesday evening in Adams County claimed the life of a man from Carbon. The Iowa State Patrol reports 65-year-old Harold Wayne Mitchell, of Carbon, died when the 2008 Harley Davidson FLHX he was riding failed to negotiate a curve on southbound Chestnut Street onto 175th Street, northwest of Corning. The cycle left the road to the right and entered a ditch. The crash happened at around 5:30-p.m. Mitchell, who was not wearing a helmet or protective gear, was ejected, and pronounced dead at the scene by the Adams County Medical Examiner.

Harold Mitchell (SWV CSD photo)

Officials with the Southwest Valley School District posted a statement on social media with regard to Mitchell’s passing “Yesterday afternoon, we lost a Wolfpack family member, Wayne Mitchell, died in a motorcycle wreck near Carbon. Wayne had driven a bus for Southwest Valley schools for many years and also drove the football bus for Southwest Valley Schools. Wayne’s bus will be parked in the high school parking lot for the next week to allow anyone to place flowers or a card at it. Services have not been announced at this point. We are going to have counselors at the high school today if anyone would need that service.”