FD woman injured after pallet piece pierces windshield
By KATIE WILLIAMS, Messenger staff writerArticle Photos
A Fort Dodge woman received a surprise when a piece of a broken pallet went through the windshield of her car Monday morning.
Cynthia Lynn Howey, 44, was driving north on Kenyon Road, near Friendship Haven, around 11:20 a.m. when the accident occurred.
Ralph Eugene Ray, 73, of Fort Dodge, was carrying wooden pallets in the back of his Ford pickup truck, heading south on Kenyon Road, when he began to lose some of them. One of the pallets was thrown into Howey's windshield.
Howey was transported to Trinity Regional Medical Center by TRMC Ambulance where she was treated for minor cuts to her forehead and released.
Ray was uninjured and was charged with spilling on a highway.
The Fort Dodge Police Department responded to the scene.
Contact Katie Williams at (515) 573-2141 or katie@messengernews.net
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FDPOTHOLELOVER
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01-06-09 11:32 PM
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You and I know the true cause of this. The truck hauling the pallets hit a pothole which caused a pallet to go flying through the air! When is the city going to fix these roads? Before or after a death is caused! Wake up Ft. Dodge!
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Barleycorn
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01-06-09 7:24 PM
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malachy; "Pullers of stuff". Never heard that one. But I'm sure I'll use it in the future. Pullers of stuff. Oh yeah. I'll use it.
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Anderson
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01-06-09 7:13 PM
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Some years ago a woman got it on US20 from a wooden fence post, and that wasn't on a pickup. I've learned to avoid uncovered rock trucks but it hasn't always helped. Have seen lots of uncovered trucks like that around FtD that police should ticket. Isn't there a fine for failure to cover?
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hybernation
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01-06-09 5:15 PM
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this looks like it could of hit her right in the head & killed her easily, &, or caused her to swirve & get killed in a worse accident!
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hybernation
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01-06-09 5:13 PM
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I think people need to be more cautios when hauling stuff, the thing that scares me most is the stupid gravel trucks on the hiway if you get stuck behind one LOOK OUT! they need to tarp their loads to hopefully catch the rocks that fly up in the air so they don't bounce down the hiway behind them & hit your window!! i would think that'd be common sence, & just respect, but maybe people are in too big of a hurry to check their loads they haul to make sure nothing will fly off/come lose & injure, or kill another person!
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malachy
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01-06-09 3:24 PM
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Something like this can occur every day with the carelessness of pick up and other truck drivers, as well as pullers of stuff. It could easily end up in one or more deaths.
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