(Iowa State Patrol crash reports) – One person died, and a total of nine others were injured in crashes on opposite sides of the State, Saturday.

(Winnebago County, Iowa [UPDATE 2-p.m. 7/6/25]  – One person died and two others were injured Saturday afternoon, during a crash in northern Iowa. According to the Iowa State Patrol, a man from Spirit Lake died when the motorcycle he was riding was struck head-on by an SUV. The accident happened at around 4-p.m.

The Patrol says two Harley Davidson motorcycles were traveling west on Iowa Highway 9 from 150th Avenue, as a 2015 Buick Encore SUV was traveling eastbound. For reasons unknown, the SUV – driven by 95-year-old Leroy Weaver, of Buffalo Center, IA – crossed the center-line of the road, and sideswiped a 2010 HD operated by 64-year-old Daniel Raak, of Spirit Lake, before hitting a 2004 HD motorcycle operated by 21-year-old David Raak, also of Spirit Lake.

Daniel Raak’s cycle continued on the road prior to going out of control and stopping on the north shoulder of the highway. David Raak’s cycle was pushed backwards from the point of impact before it came to rest on the north shoulder of the highway. A passenger on David Raak’s motorcycle, 21-year-old Kayla Huddelson, of Belle Fourche, SD, was ejected from David Raak’s cycle and came to rest on the north shoulder of the road.

The SUV entered the north ditch and came to rest in a field. David Raak died at the scene. Daniel Raak, Kayla Huddelson, and Leroy Weaver were transported by ambulance to MercyOne North Hospital in Mason City. The crash remains under investigation.

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The other accident – which also involved three vehicles – happened 12:10-a.m., Saturday, in central Iowa’s Warren County. The State Patrol reports a 2005 Jeep SUV driven by  57-year-old Angela Rae Chapman, of Indianola, was traveling south on County Road R-63, south of G014, when the vehicle crossed the center-line and side-swiped a 2001 Chevy S-10 pickup, driven by 36-year-old Jermey Lee Lawton, of Des Moines. The impact caused the pickup to rollover and come to rest on its passenger side. The Jeep continued south and immediately struck a 2014 Chevy pickup (being driven by 36-year-old Miguel Antonio Espinoza Galindo, of Des Moines), head-on.

Chapman and Miguel Espinoza, and a total of four passengers in the vehicles – all of whom were from Des Moines – were injured transported to Methodist Hospital, in Des Moines. The injured included 36-year-old Leticia Espinoza, 12-year-old Luis Antonia Espinoza (who was flown to the hospital by helicopter), 7-year old Josiah Lawton, and Jazmin Espinoza (age not listed).

Both accidents remained under investigation.