Armour teen injured in crash after dropping cell phone

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ARMOUR — A dropped cell phone led to a17-year-old Armour boy being treated for a minor head injury Tuesday afternoon after his car entered a rural ditch and hit a utility pole.

Highway Patrol Trooper Dan Podzimek declined to identify the Armour youth, but said the accident occurred around 4:15 p.m. about two miles south and one mile west of Armour on 283rd Street, a gravel road.

Podzimek said the youth was trying to retrieve a dropped cell phone and let his 2002 Mercury Cougar drift into the ditch where it hit a utility pole and sustained heavy front end damage.

“It was a low-speed crash under 30 mph, the air bags didn’t deploy, and the driver was wearing his seat belt,” Podzimek said. There were no passengers in the car.

Armour Ambulance took the driver to Douglas Memorial Hospital, where he was treated for a minor concussion and held for observation.

The utility pole wasn’t cracked or shifted and there was no interruption to services, Podzimek said.

Citations are pending in the case, he said.

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