(Glenwood, Iowa) – Sheriff’s officials in Mills County said Thursday the driver of a pickup suffered from a laceration to the top of his head and was transported to Mercy Hospital, following an accident Monday morning. Authorities say 66-year-old Alvin Sobbing, of Council Bluffs, was driving a 1997 Dodge RAM pickup northbound in the right-hand lane on 221st Street, and approaching the intersection with Eastman Road, when he lost control of the vehicle due to slick road conditions. The pickup, and the unloaded trailer it was pulling, ended up in the ditch/embankment area at the northwest corner of the intersection, where it drove over a small tree and came to rest. The accident happened at around 9:15-a.m.

Sobbing told Deputies he saw the flashing lights ahead at the intersection, and “touched his brakes,” before the vehicle and trailer went out of control. The pickup sustained disabling damage to the undercarriage. No citations were issued.

The Mills County Sheriff’s Office reports also, 25-year-old Kamerson Riley Myers, of Glenwood, was arrested Wednesday afternoon, at the Mills County Sheriff’s Office. He was taken into custody on a warrant for Failure to Appear on the original charge of Child Endangerment. Bond was set at $5,000.