Page County Sheriff Lyle Palmer says charges are pending the result of an investigation into a single-vehicle accident that took place at around 7-a.m. today (Thursday). The accident happened about four-miles west of where a 1999 Mitsubishi Eclipse driven by 36-year old Thomas Christopher Lee Blank, of Council Bluffs, blew a passenger side tire as the car was traveling east on 190th st. The tire shredded, but Blank continued to drive the car, which went out of control about 150-yards east of E Avenue. The car went into the north ditch and rolled onto the roof. When Law Enforcement arrived, Blank and passenger in the vehicle, 33-year old Lacey Nichole Remmen, of Carter Lake, where under the trunk / rear deck of the vehicle, sheltered from the weather. Both were transported to Shenandoah Memorial Hospital for treatment of unknown injuries. Remmen was transported to University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska by Life Net.
Blank and Remmen were found to be the only occupants of the vehicle at the time of the accident.