Accident

No citations were issued after an accident 10:34 a.m. Jan. 7 at the intersection of Highway 34 and South Pine Street.

According to a Creston Police report, an unidentified semi-tractor trailer was stopped in the inside lane of Highway 34 facing east while Brian Alan Fooken, 36, of Mount Ayr, driving a 2017 Chevrolet, was stopped in the inside lane of Highway 34 facing west. As Fooken attempted to turn left past the semi-tractor trailer, he entered the outside eastbound lane of Highway 34 where Brian Keith Knust, 46, of Garden Grove was driving a 1998 Dodge east on Highway 34. Knust swerved to miss Fooken’s vehicle and struck a 2012 GMC driven by Yue Pheng Her, 35, of Grimes, which was stopped at a stop sign facing north on South Pine Street.

Estimated damage was $1,000 to each of Her’s and Knust’s vehicles.