Gazette Daily News Briefing, September 11
This is Stephen Schmidt from the Gazette Digital News Desk, and I’m here with your update for September 11, 2023.
There could be some rain to start your Monday. According to the National Weather Service there will be a chance of showers and potentially thunderstorms before 10 a.m. There also will be patchy fog between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m. The chance for rain will go down as the day goes on. The high is predicted to be 70 degrees with cloudy skies.
An Indiana man was killed in an accident Saturday morning after his motorcycle collided with the back of a semi, ejecting him into the roadway where he was run over by another semi.
According to an Iowa State Patrol crash report, at 11:37 a.m. on Saturday a motorcycle being driven by Jon Gregory Brian, 57, of West Terra Haute, Ind. was traveling east on Interstate 80 in Poweshiek County when it collided with the back of a semi driven by Sherman Gilbert, 44, of Holbrook, Ariz.
Brian was ejected from his vehicle, landing in the roadway. He was then run over by another semi driven by Sidney Greenlee, 34, of Chicago.
A medical examiner was called to the scene by emergency responders. Brian was declared deceased and his body was transported from the scene.
Police apprehended a Cedar Rapids man on a motorized bicycle Saturday afternoon and accused him of fleeing the scene of a two-vehicle accident on Highway 30.
According to a media release from the Linn County Sheriff’s Office, emergency responders were called at 2:43 p.m. on Saturday for a personal injury accident at the intersection of Highway 30 and Cedar River Road.
According to police, the driver of one of the vehicles, Kenneth Kistener, 61, of Cedar Rapids was not at the scene of the accident. Officers apprehended Kistener heading south on Cedar River Road on a motorized bicycle.
After investigating the incident, they determined Kistener had been at fault for the original accident. According to their account of the report, Kistener had been traveling north on Cedar River Road when he failed to yield upon entering Highway 30, colliding with a vehicle heading east. The driver of that vehicle was listed as Daniel Franks, 44, of Marion.
Franks was uninjured in the accident. Kistener was transported to a hospital by Mount Vernon Ambulance for treatment of his injuries, according to the release.
The accident remains under investigation by the Linn County Sheriff’s Office with charges pending against Kistener, according to the release.
