(State Center, Iowa) – A man on a Utility Terrain Vehicle (UTV) was injured Wednesday afternoon near State Center in Marshall County, when the 2021 Polaris XP-1000 he was operating at around 3:40-p.m., was struck by a 2010 Ford Edge SUV, near 190th Street and Binford Avenue.

According to the Iowa State Patrol, the SUV, driven by the (unidentified) 16-year-old, and the UTV operated by 78-year-old Jeffrey Larsen, of State Center, were both traveling eastbound on 190th Street, when the UTV entered a farm field access road, with Larsen intending to make a U-turn and head back west. When he pulled the machine out onto the roadway, it was struck by the right front side of the SUV.

Larsen was injured and flown by helicopter to Methodist Hospital, in Des Moines. The teenage driver of the SUV and their passenger were not injured in the collision.