(Clayton County, Iowa)  – One person died and three others were injured Monday evening, when a pickup truck struck a UTV in northeast Iowa. The Iowa State Patrol reports two UTV’s were parked northbound on Glacier Road, about one-mile south of Faucet Road, northeast of Edgewood, when a southbound 2021 Dodge pickup driven by 56-year-old Perry Peterson, of Manchester, struck 62-year-old Ricky Thurn, of Manchester (IA), as Thurn was standing at the driver’s side door of a 2017 Polaris UTV. Thurn died at the scene.

Peterson and two others, identified as 69-year-old James Bunting, and 63-year-old Lori Bunting, both of Edgewood, were injured during the accident, which happened at around 5:10-p.m., Monday. Peterson was flown by helicopter to the UIHC. The Buntings were transported by ambulance to MercyOne Hospital in Elkader. The crash remains under investigation.

The Patrol was assisted at the scene by the Clayton and Delaware County Sheriff’s Offices, Strawberry Point Police, Guttenberg and Elkader ambulances, Edgewood Ambulance and Fire, and Gunderson Air.