(Janesville, Iowa) – (UPDATE 9:06-a.m., 9/3) – A motorcycle accident in northern Iowa’s Bremer County has claimed the life of a man from Mitchell County. According to the Iowa State Patrol, 44-year-old Robert E. Detmering, III, of Osage, was riding a 2008 Harley Davidson southbound on Highway 218 at around 4:45-p.m., when the cycle went out of control and entered the median before it struck a Jeep traveling on the inside northbound lane of the highway. The Detmering died at the scene.

The Patrol said the Jeep sustained minimal damage in the collision that occurred near Janesville.