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No one hurt after SUV goes in ditch to avoid accident
No one was hurt today after a sport-utility vehicle drove off Interstate 80 near Iowa City today to avoid hitting another vehicle.
Emergency crews to the eastbound lanes of Interstate 80 at the 239 mile marker at around 8:50 a.m. today, and found the silver SUV had gone off of the road after avoiding an accident. Police said the woman driving the SUV turned off the highway after another car attempted to merge into her lane without noticing she was there. The woman told police the vehicles would have collided if she had not gone off the road.
The driver of the other vehicle pulled over immediately to call 911, police said.
Emergency crews responded to eastbound Interstate 80 at the 239 mile marker this morning, and found this sport-utility vehicle had gone off of the highway to avoid a crash when another car tried to merge into its lane. There were no injuries in the accident. (Clark Cahill/The Gazette)
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