(Guthrie Center, IA) – Sheriff’s officials in Guthrie County say three accidents occurred over the past week, one of which possible/unknown injuries.

On Dec. 16th, a 2025 Honda CRV (SUV) driven by 41-year-old Sabrina Torneden, of Derby, KS, was traveling north on State Highway 25 at around 4:20-p.m.  The vehicle had just passed 250th Street, when a deer ran out of the east ditch and entered the roadway. Torneden was unable to avoid striking the animal. Her car sustained a sheriff’s-estimated $5,000 damage.

On the 18th, a 2006 Dodge RAM pickup driven by 36-year-old Miles Worthington, of Osceola, drove off of a residential dead-end street in Stuart, as it was traveling west on NW 2nd Street. The pickup drove off the paved road for about 90-feet before it collided with a tree and came to rest. The vehicle sustained a sheriff’s-estimated $1,501 worth of damage.

And, on Dec. 21st, a 2024 GMC pickup driven by 36-year-old Luke Skalla, of Bayard, was westbound on 140th Street just east of Justice Road, when the vehicle went out of control on the ice covered gravel road. The pickup drove-off the road and over a river bank before coming to rest in the water.  A passenger in the pickup, 31-year-old Bridgette Skalla, of Bayard, complained of pain and possible injury.

The vehicle sustained a sheriff’s-estimate $15,000 damage. A Guthrie County Bridge guard rail sustained an estimated $100,000 damage during the accident.