A distracted driver caused a four-vehicle chain reaction crash on Thursday evening in Creston. At 6:09 p.m. Officers responded to a crash at Adams and Sumner Streets in Creston. Three vehicles were stopped at a red light heading southbound in the inside lane of Sumner Street. A fourth vehicle, a Jeep driven by 17-year-old Jackson Spencer Gerdes of Jefferson, was distracted and failed to stop behind the line of vehicles striking the third car in line in the rear. This caused that vehicle to hit the second vehicle and then the second into the first. The driver of the first vehicle, a passenger in the second vehicle, and the driver of the third vehicle were all transported Greater Regional Medical Center by GRMC and Afton EMS for the treatment of possible minor injuries.

No damage was observed on the first vehicle, the second vehicle sustained $1,000 damage, the third vehicle $3,000 damage, and the fourth vehicle sustained $10,000 damage and had to be towed from the scene by Hi-Crest Auto. Gerdes was charged with Failure to Stop in Assured Clear Distance.