(Creston, Iowa) – The driver of a 2009 Dodge RAM pickup was transported to the hospital in Creston, following a single-vehicle accident Tuesday afternoon. The Union County Sheriff’s Office reports 19-year-old Leviticus Charles Exline, of Afton, was traveling on REA Road at around 1:30-p.m. Tuesday, when he pickup he was driving failed to negotiate a curve in the road. The vehicle went straight off the road and airborne, before crashing into an embankment. The pickup traveling about 225-feet before coming to rest in a field.

Exline suffered from an injury to his nose. He was not wearing a seat belt. Damage to the vehicle was estimated at $7,000.