(Guthrie Center, IA) – One person suffered suspected serious injuries during a single-vehicle accident last week, in Guthrie County. The Guthrie County Sheriff’s Office reports 20-year-old Denon Joseph Doherty, of Casey, was transported by Adair County EMS to Mercy Hospital in Des Moines, after the 2005 Isuzu SUV he was driving left Whitepole Road as it was traveling eastbound, just west of the Stuart City limits.

The vehicle entered the south ditch and ramped the Iowa Interstate Railroad tracks before becoming airborne and rolling several times after landing, and before coming to rest on its passenger side. The crash, which occurred at around 2:10-p.m., Tuesday (Jan. 27th), remained under investigation. The vehicle sustained a law enforcement-estimated $8,000 damage.

And, a run-in with a deer Friday night in Guthrie County caused an estimated $1,500 damage to a 2020 GMCC Terrain SUV, driven by 53-year-old Dawn Shepherd, of Creston. The Sheriff’s Office reports the vehicle was southbound on Wagon Road at around 7-p.m., when it struck a deer crossing the roadway in the 2700 block of Wagon Road. Shepherd was not injured during the collision.