(Guthrie Center, Iowa) – A man from Coon Rapids was seriously injured during an accident involving a tractor, Friday afternoon. The Guthrie County Sheriff’s Office reports 62-year-old Daniel Lee Royer, of Coon Rapids, was driving a John Deere tractor northbound in the 1800 block of Chestnut Avenue in Guthrie County, at around 4:25-p.m., when the tractor lost power, causing it to swerve across the southbound lanes and down an embankment until it came to rest on a ditch.

Royer was crawling out of the machine when he was seen by a passing motorist, who reported the accident to 9-1-1. He suffered suspected serious/incapacitating injuries, and was transported by Audubon County Ambulance to the Audubon County Fairgrounds, and then flown by Life Flight to a hospital in Des Moines.

The tractor sustained $10,000 damage during the accident.