ACCIDENTS

REPORTED

These accident reports were released this past week by law enforcement agencies:

SHERIFF

US-56 west of Goldenrod Rd.

Distracted by retrieving an object from her car’s floorboard at 6:06 p.m. Sept. 22, Abigail Sessom, 20, Nickerson, swerved her turning 2019 Chevrolet Cruze into a turning 2017 Ford Focus owned and driven by Rylie Driggers, 18, rural Hillsboro.

Damage to both cars — the left side of the Chevy and the trunk and right rear of the Ford — was characterized as minor. Danna Kopp, 23, of Pine Bluffs, Wyoming, was a passenger in Sessom’s car.

No tickets were listed as being issued.

210th Rd. west of Sunrise Rd.

After Alysha M. Haines, 37, rural Marion, stopped her 2021 Honda Pilot at 5:05 a.m. Sept. 25 to avoid a deer, a second jumped out of the opposite ditch and struck her stopped sport-utility vehicle.

The SUV, owned by Alexander Haines of the same address, remained drivable with damage to its left side.

130th near Nighthawk Rd.

Colby J. Suderman, 17, rural Hillsboro, was ticketed for not wearing a seat belt after he lost control of a 1998 Dodge Dakota at 6:10 p.m. Thursday, and it ran off the road to the right and overturned.

The Dodge, owned by Kevin R. Suderman of the same address, was listed as being destroyed.

As a precaution, Marion ambulance and Peabody firefighters were dispatched to the accident. However, an off-duty ambulance attendant was first of the scene and canceled the call.

US-50 east of Mustang Rd.

J. Edward L. Cain, 51, Marion, was ticketed for having no liability insurance and driving while his license was suspended after the engine of his 1980 Chevrolet C15 caught fire at 5:33 a.m. Thursday.

The pickup sustained disabling damage to its undercarriage and was towed. The fire was extinguished before Peabody firefighters arrived.

HILLSBORO

Hillsboro Community Hospital lot

A 2022 Ford Explorer owned by Lori S. Funk, 64, rural Hillsboro, was hit in the left rear, possibly while the car was parked for an hour around 8:40 a.m. Sept. 25 in the Hillsboro Community Hospital parking lot.

A suspect vehicle was identified from surveillance video, but a check of the vehicle found no damage to it.