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Glenwood Police Dept.: Accident reports from 11/22-27

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November 29th, 2022 by Ric Hanson

The Glenwood Police Department reports numerous accidents took place from Nov. 22nd through the 27th. Injury accidents occurred on the 22nd and 24th, the rest were property damage incidents. On the 22nd, 19-year-old Hailey Raymer, of Council Bluffs, was driving a 2019 Honda westbound on Highway 44 at around 9-p.m., when her vehicle left the road to the north, and struck a”briffon rail end point,” causing the vehicle to roll over. It struck a lane width sign and damaged multiple poles of the briffon rail before coming to rest on its top. Raymer was transported to the Montgomery County Memorial Hospital by Emerson Rescue.

The other (injury) accident took place on 287th Street at around 8:25-a.m. on Nov. 24th. Authorities say 58-year-old Jeffrey Fink, of Silver City, was driving a 2006 Chevy, when he failed to traverse the corner at 287th and 286th Street. The car went into the ditch and struck a power pole belonging to MidAmerican Energy, and “Snapped it in-half like a tooth pick,” according to the report. The vehicle came to rest at the bottom of an embankment in a creek. Fink was not seriously hurt. He was transported to Bergan Mercy Hospital by Silver City Rescue, to be checked out. Authorities said Fink, who has a medical condition and “should not have been operating a motor vehicle,” was cited for failure to maintain control and driving while suspended.