Authorities say the van had hit a fence with a metal pole, which went through the two rear windows. Passenger side air bags had deployed and the passenger side doors wouldn’t open, with the handles broken off. Officers eventually located the registered owner of the vehicle, Angela Hussman of Ashland, Neb., a few hundred yards down the interstate. Hussman was uninjured, though she was walking barefoot and told police she had no idea how she got to Iowa.

Hussman said she had been a passenger in the Nissan, with a man who had been driving her home from a bar, but she could not identify him. She said she woke up in the passenger seat of the vehicle and got out after grabbing the pole for support to escape out the driver side. No other individuals were located in the area. Hussman told police she was unable to account for the time from when she left the bar around 2 a.m. to when the accident occurred, around 2:55 a.m.