(Update 5:53-p.m.: The accident victim was identified late today as 27-year old Brianna Pogge, of Atlantic)

(Original story) — A woman estimated by authorities to have been in her late 20’s was injured during a single-vehicle rollover accident north of Atlantic this morning. According to Cass County Sheriff’s Deputy Ben Bartholomew, the woman was driving an SUV when the vehicle drifted onto the shoulder southbound on Olive Street about one-quarter of a mile north of Echo Road.

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She over-corrected back onto the road, crossed over the centerline, crossed back and went off the road again into a ditch, where the vehicle struck a culvert pipe and flipped-up ontop of the culvert. The accident happened at around 10:28-a.m., southwest of the Pipeline Foods elevator. The woman was initially placed in a Medivac Ambulance to be stabilized before being flown by LifeNet helicopter to Bergan-Mercy Hospital. She was the lone occupant of the vehicle.

Atlantic Fire and Rescue, Medivac Ambulance, Cass County Sheriff’s Deputies, Atlantic Police and Cass County Emergency Management Coordinator Mike Kennon all assisted at the scene.