The Carroll Police Department responded to three separate motor vehicle accidents last week, all involving failure to obey a traffic control device and all with no injuries and only functional damage reported. The first was reported at approximately 5:10 p.m. on Wednesday, May 12 at the intersection of Bluff and Main Streets. Thirty-seven-year-old Mollie Lappe of Carroll was stopped at a posted sign westbound on Bluff in a 2014 Chrysler Town and Country. Also westbound was 49-year-old Daren Overmohle of Carroll in a 2014 Chevrolet Silverado. Overmohle failed to stop in time to avoid a collision and struck the rear of the Lappe vehicle. Overhmohle was cited for following too closely. The second accident occurred at approximately 6:08 p.m. Wednesday at 2nd and Main Streets. Forty-year-old Jamie McCool of Carroll was southbound on Main in a 2011 Nissan Quest. Sixty-nine-year-old Scott Smith of Kimballton was westbound on 2nd Street in a 2016 Ford Taurus and failed to yield to the McCool vehicle from the stop sign, broadsiding the Quest. Smith was cited for failure to obey a stop sign. The third accident was reported at approximately 10:53 a.m. on Thursday, May 13 at the intersection of U.S. Highway 30 and Grant Road. Seventy-seven-year-old Joy Savoie of Glidden was northbound on Grant Road in a 2011 Chevrolet Cruze. Twenty-two-year-old Cassidy Addison of Lake City was eastbound on Highway 30 in a 2021 Chevrolet Trailblazer, but failed to stop for a red light. Addison struck the driver’s side of the Savoie vehicle.
