(Red Oak, Iowa) – The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, in a news release today (Sunday), said the driver of a pickup truck was cited following an investigation into a property-damage accident that occurred September 1st. Authorities say the Sheriff’s Office received a call Thursday (Sept. 4) about damaged roadway signs at the intersection of Union Avenue and 240th Street in Montgomery County. An investigation revealed a 1996 Ford F-150 pickup belonging to 58-year-old Charles Samuel Williams, of Villisca, had struck the signs.

When deputies spoke with Williams, it was determined that at around 9:30-a.m. on Sept. 1st, Williams’ pickup was traveling south on Union Avenue. The man told deputies that he saw a coyote in the ditch, and stopped on the roadway. When he put his pickup in reverse, he lost control of the vehicle, which entered the east ditch and struck two roadway signs, causing an estimated $1,000 damage to the Montgomery County Secondary Roads Dept. signs.  The report did not list any damage to the pickup.

Williams was cited for Failure to Maintain Control.