(Menlo, Iowa) – A man is dead and a woman was injured during a collision late Monday morning near the Adair County Freedom Rock. The Iowa State Patrol reports 56-year old Jay Douglas Thysen, of Elk Horn (IA) died at the scene. 60-year-old Karen Dena Thysen, also of Elk Horn, was injured and transported by Mercy 1 helicopter to Mercy Hospital in Des Moines. The crash happened on Highway 25 at 120th Street at around 11:30-a.m.

The Patrol reports a 2014 Harley Davidson motorcycle occupied Jay and Karen Thysen, was traveling south on Highway 25 and slowing before it stopped and signaled for a left turn onto the Freedom Rock drive while yielding to a northbound 2017 Chevy Malibu driven by 41-year-old Nicole Marie Elizabeth Lindberg, of Greenfield.

20-year-old Liam Edison Reiner, of West Des Moines was driving a southbound 2012 Nissan Versa, and was distracted by the highly populated gathering on the east side of the road. The Nissan struck the motorcycle from behind, causing the cycle to be pushed into the rear driver’s side of the Malibu.