A truck driver hauling an oversized load struck a disabled car legally parked on the shoulder of Interstate 80 in Pottawattamie County, Wednesday morning, totaling the disabled car and sending it into the ditch. The Iowa State Patrol reports the accident happened at around 8-a.m. on I-80 eastbound, about two-miles east of the Shelby exit.
Officials say driver of the semi, driven by 54-year old Clement J. Smith III, of Marrero, Louisiana, was unable to move into the left lane because another vehicle was approaching in that lane. A corner of the large punch press the semi was hauling sideswiped the parked and unoccupied 2000 Toyota, sending spinning it around and sending it into the south ditch. The semi pulled off onto the shoulder of the road.
The punch press sustained $1,000 damage. No injuries were reported.