An accident Wednesday night in Council Bluffs resulted in the arrest of a man who had recently been released from the Mills County Jail after serving 23 days, for Driving while Barred. The Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office says 78-year old Ronald Walter Klinker, of Hastings, was taken into custody for Driving While Barred, after the pickup he was driving struck the Casey’s General Store at 19900 Virginia Hills Road. The accident, which happened at around 8:15-p.m., Wednesday, caused minimal damage to the buildings’ gutter.

An on-duty Casey’s employee told a Sheriff’s Deputy as Klinker pulled into the parking lot, his pickup jumped the curb and hit the building. Klinker told the Deputy he experienced a coughing fit and accidentally hit the gas instead of the brake. He acknowledged his driving privileges were barred, and that he shouldn’t be driving, but Klinker said he couldn’t find anyone to take him into town to get groceries.