Woman's Accident Was 'No Accident' She Tells Urbandale Police

Urbandale police took a 31-year-old Dexter woman to the hospital for a mental evaluation on May 20 after she told them she drove her car off the road in a suicide attempt.

Police initially received a call from a passerby who said there was a rollover accident on 111th Street just south of Douglas Avenue. But when police and medics arrived, they could not find any accident.

Medics said they saw a woman walking near the a few blocks away, so they went back there and found the woman inside the restaurant, said Lt. Rob Johansen.

When the police officer asked her if she had been in an accident, she replied that "it was no accident." She told them she was trying to kill herself, Johansen said.

She apparently was uninjured, but her vehicle had heavy front-end damage, he said.