The Iowa State Patrol, Thursday, released additional details about an accident Wednesday morning involving a Trooper. Authorities report Trooper Dillon Malone, of Council Bluffs, was driving his patrol vehicle, a 2014 Dodge Charger, in Emergency status, while enroute to assist with a vehicle eluding law enforcement. As the Trooper was traveling south on Highway 275 at around 4:20-a.m., and entering the town of Hamburg, his vehicle entered a curve and went out of control. The cruiser went off the road to the left and into a residential yard where it hit a tree before going airborne off an embankment. The vehicle struck a parked 2017 Freightliner semi trailer in the residents’ driveway, and afterward spun around before coming to rest.

Trooper Malone, who was wearing his seat belt, was transported by LifeNet helicopter to the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), where he was being treated for serious, but non-life threatening injuries.