(Red Oak, Iowa) – The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, today (Friday), released information about a property damage chain-reaction accident that occurred at around 12:35-p.m. on Aug. 24th, in Stanton. Authorities say the incident occurred in the 300 block of Broad Avenue, when 72-year-old David Allen Hart, of Stanton, was backing-up in his SUV, a 2023 GMC Acadia, out of his parking spot. A 2016 GMC pickup driven by 22-year-old Seth Michael Barkman, of Stanton, was passing by the parking spot, when Hart’s SUV struck the front bumper of the pickup truck.

The impact was strong enough that it set off the airbags on pickup to deploy, and it disabled the right front tire on the pickup. The accident caused Barkman to lose control of his vehicle, which struck parked vehicles that included a 2017 Hyundai Elantra registered to 38-year-old Lindsay Anne Valdez, of Red Oak. The collision caused her car to be shoved forward from its parked position into a streetlight. The other parked vehicle that was struck by the pickup was registered to 78-year-old Pamela Sue Bradley, of Red Oak. The make and model of her vehicle was not indicated in the report.

No injuries were reported. Combined damage to the vehicles amounted to $29,500. The City of Stanton streetlight sustained $1,500 damage. Sheriff’s Deputies cited David Hart for unsafe backing.