(Atlantic, Iowa) – In an update to our earlier reports, officials with the Cass County Sheriff’s Office said Friday (today), that at around 12:45-p.m., Thursday, area first responders were called to the scene of a single-vehicle accident with injuries, near Highway 6 and Lansing Road. Deputies on scene found that a 1996 Buick Century being operated by Jack Tye, of Griswold, was traveling South on Highway 6.  The person who reported the accident said they had passed Tye’s vehicle, and shortly after, in their rear-view mirror, saw the car drift out of its lane to the left, cross the opposite lane of the highway, and enter the ditch.

A further investigation indicated that Tye’s vehicle continued through the ditch and into an adjacent field.  The vehicle then backed up into the ditch where it came to rest.  Upon first responders’ arrival, both the Jack Tye and his passenger, Donna Tye, of Griswold, were still within the vehicle.  First responders helped the two out of their car. They were transported to a local hospital for what was believed to be non-life threatening injuries.

The vehicle sustained an approximated $5,000 of damage