MPD officer injured in rollover

     On Oct. 24 at 1:56 a.m., Monticello Police Officer Bob Urbain was driving one of the Monticello Police Department’s 2016 Dodge Chargers as he was responding to a physical domestic dispute. He was traveling northbound on Business Highway 151 South in Monticello when he swerved to avoid a deer in the roadway. The vehicle entered the ditch, according to the Jones County Sheriff’s accident report, flipped end-over-end and side-over-side approximately eight times, based on Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Snyder’s observations. Snyder was en route with Urbain for the domestic call. Snyder said the squad car traveled 516 feet from where it initially entered the ditch to where it rested.

     Due to Urbain’s non-life threatening injuries he was transported by Anamosa Ambulance to Jones Regional Medical Center, and later taken by Life Guard to St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids.