Sheldon, Iowa – The Sheldon Police have now issued the report about an accident in which two people were taken to the hospital last week.
The Sheldon Police Department reports that about 11:45 AM on Wednesday, February 11, 2015, 36-year-old Cory Nagel of George was driving a 1999 Pontiac westbound on Sixteenth Street. Fifty-six year-old Dennis Leonard of Holstein, Iowa was southbound on Old Highway 60 in a 2007 Sterling truck. Thirty-year-old Nathan White of Sheldon was northbound on Old 60 in a 2006 Ford pickup.
The report says that Nagel was stopped at the stop sign on the east side of the intersection with Old 60. White was slowing down or was stopped, waiting to turn west onto Sixteenth Avenue. Nagel continued straight west on Sixteenth, crossing in front of Leonard’s truck. The officer says Nagel stopped while in the southbound lane of Old 60, causing Leonard to apply hard braking and swerve right in an attempt to avoid him, says the report. Leonard’s truck hit the car, causing the car to lose steering control and veer hard left into White’s pickup, and then roll onto its right side.
White and a passenger in his pickup, 70-year-old Archer Seaman of Hartley were transported to Sanford Sheldon by SCAT.
Nagel ‘s Pontiac sustained $3000 in damages, and Leonard’s Sterling truck and White’s pickup sustained $15,000 in damages, each.
Nagel was charged with Failure to Obey a Stop Sign.
