A Cass County man was injured during a single-vehicle accident Monday evening, near Walnut. Pottawattamie County Chief Deputy Sheriff John Reynolds told KJAN News 42-year old Darrell Pershin, of rural Anita, was transported by Walnut Fire and Rescue to the Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, and later transported by LifeFlight Helicopter to a hospital in Des Moines.

The crash happened at around 7:20-p.m. on Highway 83. Chief Deputy Reynolds said  witnesses stated Pershin was traveling west at a high rate of speed on Highway 83 in a 2016 Chevy Express van registered to Plumb Tech Mechanical, Inc., out of Knoxville, when in the vicinity of 505th Street and Sycamore, the vehicle left the road and jumped an embankment on 505th and landed on the west side of 505th before entering a cornfield and coming to rest right side up. The vehicle sustained about $10,000 damage.

The accident remains under investigation, with charges or citations pending the outcome of the investigation.