Two people were transported to the Cass County Memorial Hospital by Medivac Ambulance, following a single-vehicle accident Sunday evening, in Atlantic. The Atlantic Police Department reports Larry Petersen, of Audubon, and an unidentified passenger in his vehicle, were traveling north on Highway 71 at around 5:45-p.m., and approaching the intersection with 7th Street, when the vehicles’ brakes failed.

The vehicle continued through the intersection and left the road before going airborne. As a result of the front end of the vehicle impacting the ground, the vehicle rolled onto its top. Damage from the crash amounted to $15,000.

The Atlantic P-D reports also, 22-year old Thomas Bruning, of Griswold, was arrested Monday (today), for OWI. Bruning was booked into the Cass County Jail.