A rural Council Bluffs teenager suffered non-life threatening injuries following a rollover accident early this (Tuesday) morning, in Pottawattamie County. According to Sheriff Jeff Danker, 16-year old Keagan Hedrick, who was wearing his seat belt,  was transported by LifeNet to the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, for treatment of broken bones cuts, bruises and other, unknown injuries. Danker said the accident happened near 260^th Street at around 6:20-a.m., as the teen was traveling east on Highway 92, enroute to football practice in Treynor.

The teen told authorities he fell asleep at the wheel of the 2005 Toyota minivan, and when he woke up saw his vehicle had drifted into the oncoming lane of traffic, where another vehicle was approaching. Hedrick swerved to avoid contact and lost control, causing the van to roll several times into the north ditch.

Danker said he wasn’t sure if the teen will be cited for Failure to Maintain Control, he said more importantly he’s just thankful the teen is still alive.

Sheriff’s officials in Mills County say no injuries were reported following two recent accidents. On July 30th, a 1998 Lincoln driven by Denver Cook, of Glenwood, was traveling east at a high rate of speed on Highway 34, when Cook tried to make a left-hand turn onto 315th Street. His vehicle was traveling too fast to make the turn though, and went out of control. It hit a ditch head-on before traveling up an embankment through a cornfield and coming to rest in the south ditch of Highway 34, about one-half mile north of Malvern.

The other accident happened last Friday (Aug. 2nd), at around 2:35-p.m.  Officials say a 2007 Honda driven by Samuel Kalhorn, of Glenwood, was traveling south on 240th Street, when an unknown vehicle was headed northbound, partially in Kalhorn’s lane. When he swerved to avoid contact with the other vehicle, Kalhorn’s car hit a cable guardrail.