(Red Oak, IA) – Montgomery County Sheriff’s Deputies responded at around 7:55-a.m. today (Thursday), to a collision in Villisca. The Sheriff’s report says the accident happened at the intersection of W. 4th Street and U Avenue, as a 2011 Ford F-150 pickup driven by Axel Eugene McCuen, of Villisca, was traveling westbound on W. 4th Street. When the vehicle approached the intersection with U Avenue, McCuen applied the brakes, but was unable to come to a stop, due to the weight of the trailer attached to the pickup, and the snow/ice covered roadway.

The pickup truck slid through the intersection and struck a 2019 Dodge RAM 1500 pickup belonging to Douglas Dewey Scott, of Villisca. No injuries were reported. Damage the accident amounted to a total of $8,000. McCuen was cited for having no insurance – accident related.