BLACK HAWK COUNTY, IA. (THECOUNT) — Ethen Devere Edge, of Waterloo, Iowa, has been identified as the victim in a Thursday fatal motorcycle crash in Black Hawk County.

Edge, 24, was killed in a multi-vehicle motorcycle crash near Evansdale late Thursday afternoon.

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According to reports, Edge was operating a motorcycle on Interstate 380 near Mile Marker 69, when the bike came into rear-end contact with a slower moving pickup truck, operated by Corey Simon, of Waterloo. Another pickup truck, operated by Joshua Stiner, of Post Falls, Idaho, then came into rear-end contact with Edge.

Edge was transported to an area hospital where he was later pronounced dead of blunt force trauma injuries.

The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

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Geo quick facts: Black Hawk County is a county in the northeastern part of U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2010 census, the population was 131,090, making it Iowa’s fourth-most populous county. The county seat is Waterloo. Black Hawk County is part of the Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA Metropolitan Statistical Area – Wikipedia.