No citations were issued after an accident 12:45 p.m. Sept. 28 at Lakeside Casino.
According to an Osceola Police report, Mark Edward Long, 55, of Albia, driving a 2001 Subaru, and Karen Anne Chew, 72, of Murray, driving a 2012 Chevrolet, crashed into each other in a parking stall in the parking lot of Lakeside Casino, located at 777 Casino Drive. Chew said she was driving north in the parking lot after pulling out of a parking stall and Long was backing up. Chew said she thought Long’s vehicle was going to pull into an east parking spot so she pulled toward an empty parking stall. Long said he pulled past an empty parking stall on the west side of the aisle and was backing up into a spot when Chew’s vehicle appeared to try and beat him to the parking stall.
Damage estimates are $500 to Long’s vehicle and $800 to Chew’s vehicle.
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No citations were issued after an accident 4 p.m. Oct. 4 at the intersection of West Cass and South Fillmore streets.
According to an Osceola Police report, Judy Kathryn Ketcham, 71, of Osceola, driving a 2009 Chevrolet east on West Cass Street, said she was stopped at the stop sign, looked for traffic and pulled out, where she made contact with a 2002 Chevrolet driven south on South Fillmore Street by Joeseph Allen Petty, 21, of Leon. Ketcham said she did not see Petty’s vehicle coming and did not have any injuries. Ketcham’s vehicle had the front license plate taken off in the collision, along with some paint scraping across the front bumper.
Petty said when he saw Ketcham pull out from the stop sign he swerved to miss her, but did get hit in the passenger side, which caused him to hit the curb on the north side of South Fillmore Street. As a result, Petty’s vehicle had a driver’s side flat tire and bent wheel rim. No occupants of Petty’s vehicle complained of injuries.
Damage estimates were $500 to Ketcham’s vehicle and $500 to Petty’s vehicle.
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No citations were issued after an accident 4:35 p.m. Oct. 4 at the intersection of South Main and West McLane streets.
According to an Osceola Police report, Cecelia Carolyn McDowell, 81, of Osceola, driving a 2015 Ford south on South Main Street, turned her turn signal on and started to change lanes when she noticed a 2010 Chevrolet driven south on South Main Street by Kristi Anne Carrico, 62, of Murray, who was in the turn lane to head west on West McLane Street, and crashed into Carrico’s vehicle.
Damage estimates are $800 to McDowell’s vehicle and $1,800 to Carrico’s vehicle.