(Guthrie Center, Iowa) – The Guthrie County Sheriff’s Office has issued a report on three recent, separate accidents. Authorities say 22-year-old Sheldon J. Astley, of Bayard, was charged with Failure to Maintain Control, Striking Fixtures upon a highway, use of electronic communication device and OWI/1st offense, after the pickup he was driving crashed a little after 7-p.m. Saturday. Astley was traveling west from Prairie Street and School Street when his 2016 Ford F-150 went out of control and drove into the west ditch before striking a City of Guthrie Center speed sign and light pole. The vehicle came to rest in the ditch. It sustained $7,000 damage and was declared a total loss. Damage to the light pole was estimated at $3,500. No injuries were reported.

An accident Sunday morning caused $5,000 damage to a 2010 Acura driven by 33-year-old David Ortiz-Merino, of Des Moines. The Guthrie County Sheriff’s Office says his car was eastbound on White Pole Road at around 5:30-a.m., when it went off the south shoulder and into the ditch, where it collided with two directional signs and the end of a guardrail. The guardrail sustained about $2,500 damage.

And, a collision with a small deer June 16th caused $2,000 damage to a 2013 Toyota Camry. The accident happened at around 9-p.m. on Highway 25 north in Guthrie County. The vehicle was being driven by 28-year-old Morgan Clark, of West Des Moines.