(Arispe, Iowa) – An accident north of Arispe, in Union County, early Sunday morning, resulted in two people being injured. The Union County Sheriff’s Office reports a 2011 Dodge pickup truck driven by 18-year-old Jayson Lee Shimer, of Creston, was traveling southbound on Highway 169 at around 2-a.m., Sunday, when Shimer fell asleep at the wheel.

The pickup went out of control, left the road toward the east, and came to rest in a ditch. Shimer suffered nose and hand pain, and was transported by EMS to the Greater Regional Hospital, in Creston. His passenger, 17-year-old John Brayden Cook, of Diagonal, was transported to the hospital by a parent, before law enforcement arrived on the scene.

The pickup sustained $1,500 damage during the crash.