(Corrects name to LINDERMAN instead of Lindaman) A man from Union County was involved involved in three separate crashes early Sunday morning. Police in Creston say at around 6-a.m., 28-year old Tyler Michael Linderman, of Creston, was backing a 2001 Dodge Dakota pickup out of his driveway at 1710 160th Street, when the pickup crossed the street and struck a 2005 BMW car in a driveway across the street. The owner of the BMW heard the crash and went outside to see Linderman still in his pickup, trying to leave the scene. The vehicles were struck together, so Linderman left his vehicle and began walking south across the road to his residence. Damage from the incident amounted to $12,000.

About one-half hour later, Linderman was driving a 1996 Ford Econoline truck was traveling west at a high rate of speed on Townline Road., when the vehicle left the road to the west and crashed through two fences on the corner lot. The vehicle ramped-up the median created for the railroad tracks, went airborne, and landed hard into the Bunn O’Matic parking lot, leaving excessive debris. The vehicle was totaled in the crash. The total amount of damage from the incident was $16,250.

Linderman then apparently acquired a 2011 Toyota Sienna mini-van. That vehicle was traveling west on Highway 34 at around 6:40-a.m. near the 74 mile marker, when it twice rear-ended a westbound 2005 Hyundai Elantra that was also headed westbound on 34. The Hyundai came to rest in the eastbound lane of travel, while the Toyota continued westbound into the south ditch before coming back across the roadway and coming to rest in the north ditch.

Linderman was not wearing a seat belt. He suffered life-threatening injuries and was flown by LifeNet helicopter to Mercy Hospital in Des Moines. The driver of the other vehicle was not injured. He was identified as 18-year old Luke Stousgard, of Clearfield. The van was said to have been reported stolen. (This report was a compilation of three separate reports: Creston Police, Union County Sheriff’s Office and the IA State Patrol)