Woman injured after SUV plunges over 100 feet down embankment
PHILIP HOLMES/Sun-Gazette Bressler's Towing responded to Tuesday's single-vehicle crash near Trout Run and removed the demolished Ford Escape.
PHILIP HOLMES/Sun-Gazette After bringing her up a steep embankment along Route 15, emergency responders load a crash victim onto a stretcher. She was taken by ambulance to UPMC Williamsport for treatment of non-life-threating injuries, state police said.
PHILIP HOLMES/Sun-Gazette Volunteer firefighters gather up the several hundred feet of rescue rope that was used to bring an injured driver up an embankment in a Stokes basket following a crash on Route 15 near Trout Run.
PHILIP HOLMES/Sun-Gazette Fire trucks and other emergency vehicles line the east berm of Route 15 South during an investigation into a crash north of Trout Run on Tuesday morning.
PHILIP HOLMES/Sun-Gazette Bressler's Towing responded to Tuesday's single-vehicle crash near Trout Run and removed the demolished Ford Escape.
PHILIP HOLMES/Sun-Gazette After bringing her up a steep embankment along Route 15, emergency responders load a crash victim onto a stretcher. She was taken by ambulance to UPMC Williamsport for treatment of non-life-threating injuries, state police said.
PHILIP HOLMES/Sun-Gazette Volunteer firefighters gather up the several hundred feet of rescue rope that was used to bring an injured driver up an embankment in a Stokes basket following a crash on Route 15 near Trout Run.
PHILIP HOLMES/Sun-Gazette Fire trucks and other emergency vehicles line the east berm of Route 15 South during an investigation into a crash north of Trout Run on Tuesday morning.
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TROUT RUN – A woman in her late 20s was being treated for injuries she suffered Tuesday morning when her Ford Escape rolled over a guardrail on Route 15 South and plunged more than 100 feet down an embankment about three miles north of here, according to state police.
Investigators said she lost control of her car as she was rounding a curve about 8:20 a. m.
The vehicle went airborne and then rolled several times down the embankment, landing upright, police said.
The driver, who was wearing a seat belt, was conscious and alert in the car when Trout Run firefighters arrived on the scene.
Trout Run Fire Capt. Chuck O’Brien Jr. said firefighters loaded the victim into a Stokes basket and then used several hundred feet of rescue rope to pull her up the embankment.
The woman was then taken by ambulance to UPMC Williamsport, police said.
Assisting Trout Run firefighters, were firemen from Old Lycoming Township as well as fire police from Hepburn and Old Lycoming townships.