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A Guthrie Center man is charged with failure to maintain control and operating while under the influence, first offense, after a single-vehicle wreck early Thursday.

According to the Guthrie County Sheriff’s Office, a deputy responded at about 4:15 a.m. to a Ford 150 that wrecked on the bridge near Justice Road and 215th Street northwest of Guthrie Center. The driver, 55-year-old Curtis Gary Sloss, told the deputy he fell asleep at the wheel. Sloss appeared to have red, watery eyes and his breath had an alcoholic odor. After an investigation, it appeared Sloss was driving northbound on Justice Road when he lost control and swerved left into the bridge guardrail. He then redirected the truck to the right when his back end was believed to have swung around and struck the other side of the bridge. Sloss then swerved back to the left where the front end hit the west guardrail and came to a rest.

Sloss was medically evaluated and cleared for treatment. The truck was towed from the scene, and damage to the bridge is estimated at $15,000. Sloss was taken to the sheriff’s office for field sobriety tests and was later charged for OWI, first offense.