CEDAR BLUFFS, Neb. (WOWT) — A dangerous lip along a heavily traveled county road west of Omaha nearly cost one driver his life, prompting calls for immediate safety improvements.

Todd Allen was driving on Saunders County Road X on Sept. 1 when what he thought was corrective driving became a life-threatening crash.

“I felt like I was driving down the yellow line so I compensated for it and it just took me off the road,” Allen said.

Allen’s right wheel dropped off the road’s lip, sending his vehicle careening across the roadway.

“I went off back here and that’s what threw me clear across and I slid through the ditch and flipped on my side taking out that pole,” he said.

The crash hospitalized Allen with nine broken ribs, a punctured lung, a torn spleen and other injuries. His mother, Sh

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