(Guthrie Center, Iowa) – A pickup that struck a dog Friday afternoon in Guthrie County, sustained $1,500 damage, but the driver of the vehicle was not injured. The Guthrie County Sheriff’s Office reports a 2021 Ford Ranger pickup driven by 44-year-old Elisha (Elijah) Brogan, of Bradford, OH, was traveling south on Frontier Road at around 4:50-p.m., when a dog chasing a UTV ran onto the highway from a property in the 2600 block of Frontier Road.

The animal was struck by the left front side of the pickup, resulting in the dog’s death. The Sheriff’s Office said the dog belonged to the property owners in that location, and that the dog was chasing one of their workers that had driven the UTV onto the highway. The dog was valued at $500.