An overnight chase with law enforcement in Adair and Guthrie counties ended with a fatality.

According to the Iowa State Patrol, 30-year-old Benjamin Wilber of Mora, Minnesota was trying to elude an Adair County Deputy as Wilber’s 2013 Harley Davidson motorcycle was traveling east on White Pole Road at 12:32am Tuesday morning. The State Patrol reports Guthrie County Deputy Todd Thorn was in a 2021 Chevrolet Silverado truck that was stopped on Juniper Avenue on the south side of the intersection facing north and waiting to join in the pursuit. 

The crash report shows that Wilber veered south from White Pole Road and struck the rear driver’s side of the Silverado on Juniper Avenue. Wilber was thrown from the motorcycle and landed in the southeast ditch. The motorcycle and truck came to a rest in the intersection. Wilber died of his injuries and no one else was hurt.