Grain trailer rolls into a Guthrie County ditch
November 5th, 2025 by Ric Hanson
(Guthrie Center, Iowa) – The Guthrie County Sheriff’s Office, today (Wednesday), released information about a non-injury accident involving a semi tractor-trailer, that occurred on Oct. 26th. Authorities say a Freightliner semi driven by 34-year-old Dustin Woods, of Guthrie Center, was traveling north on Sycamore Avenue at around 7:45-p.m. on the 26th, and trying to negotiate a left turn onto 160th Road, when a grain trailer the semi was hauling, dropped-off into the eastbound ditch, before it rolled over and dumped its load of grain into the ditch and onto the roadway.
The semi tractor came to rest on the road. The semi sustained an estimated $35,000 damage. The grain trailer, registered to Austin Smith, of Yale, sustained $20,000 damage, according to the report.
No citations were issued.

