RUNNELLS, Iowa — The Polk County Sheriff's Office says a motorcyclist is dead following a single-vehicle crash early Sunday morning.
Officers found 27-year-old Austin Nyheim of Baxter, Iowa, unresponsive in a ditch near to the 500 block of NE 112th Street shortly after 1 a.m. on Sunday, July 16.
The Runnells Fire Department transported Nyheim to an area hospital, where he later died. Investigators have not yet released a cause for the crash.
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