A motorcyclist was killed in a crash about ten o’clock last night (Wednesday) in southeast Iowa’s Mahaska County. Troopers say 61-year-old Richard Vanee of Pella was heading west on Highway 153, two miles west of Oskaloosa, when his motorcycle was allegedly rearended by a Fed-Ex tractor-trailer driven by 67-year-old Dennis Glancy of Fremont.
Vanee was taken to Mahaska County Hospital where he was pronounced dead. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.