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Des Moines man charged following Audubon County accident

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July 2nd, 2012 by Ric Hanson

A Des Moines man was charged with Failure to Yield from a stop sign, following a non-injury accident Friday afternoon in Audubon County. Sheriff Todd Johnson reports deputies responded to the scene of the crash at the intersection of Highways 71 and 44 at around 2:30-p.m. The accident happened as 67-year old Dale Edward Gust, of Templeton, was traveling north on Highway 71 in a 1995 Chevy S-10 pickup, and 87-year old Edwin Alvin Pitts, of Des Moines, was traveling east on 44.

The Sheriff says Pitts stopped at the posted stop sign, but after failing to see the approaching pickup, then pullled out to cross Highway 71. As he did so, his 2007 Chevy Cobalt was hit by the pickup. The impact caused the car to spin sideways. Damage to the vehicles was estimated at $3,500 altogether.