(Glenwood, Iowa) – The Mills County Sheriff’s Office reports two accident took place last Friday. Authorities say a 2018 Hyundai driven by 65-year-old Debora Olerich, of Malvern, was traveling east on East 3rd Street at around 11:10-p.m., when her vehicle struck a 2014 Dodge, driven by 66-year-old Robert Muellner, of Randolph, after he failed to yield the right-of-way at the uncontrolled intersection with Prospect Avenue. Olerich was transported to Mercy Hospital by Malvern Rescue. Authorities cited Muellner for Failure to Yield.

And, at around 8:33-a.m., Friday, a 2020 Mack truck driven by 28-year-old Cody Lyons, of LaVista, NE., was traveling east on Highway 34 in a construction zone, and passed several construction zone signs indicating a maximum load width limit of 10-feet. The bulldozer he was hauling with a blade attached, scraped the concrete barricade all the way on the south side of the Highway 34 railroad bridge, which was closed to one lane because of the construction. The bulldozer blade also pushed the moveable concrete barricades along the construction zone.

Lyons told Deputies he saw the width restriction signs too late, and made an error in judgement, believing he could make it through the construction zone.