Driver taken to hospital following 1-vehicle crash
A police officer directs traffic near the scene of a single-vehicle accident that occurred about 5 p.m. Sunday on North Main Street in South Strabane.
Gayle Lane, 71, left, talks to a police officer and her neighbor Sunday. A white Chevrolet Malibu careened into her yard and struck the front of her home about 5 p.m. before the driver was taken to Washington hospital.
A woman was transported to a local hospital Sunday afternoon after the car she was driving careened off North Main St. in South Strabane.
Township police Officer James McKean said it appeared the woman was driving a Chevrolet Malibu north before the crash, which occurred about 5 p.m. on the street’s 1300 block.
McKean declined immediately to release the name of the driver, whom he said was lying on a concrete pad in front of the house when he arrived. The woman, who is about 75 years old and lives nearby, was breathing faintly, McKean said.
She was taken to Washington Hospital. McKean said the woman was still being treated about two hours following the accident.
“I would say it was probably a medical condition,” he said of the cause of the crash.
McKean noted there were no brake marks on the road. He said he hadn’t smelled alcohol, and there were no drugs in the car.
The driver was the only person in the car, which seemed to have veered across the opposite lane of the street and over an embankment and hit the front of the house before it came to rest in the front yard.
Gayle Lane, 71, said she was inside her home when she heard a “bam.”
“I thought the cat knocked something over,” she said.
But then she realized the sound was familiar from the last time a car hit her house. She looked out her living room window. She saw the car sitting in her yard and called 911.
Lane said one night about eight years ago a vehicle sailed over the embankment and rammed the side of her house, causing $35,000 in damage.
She said the vehicle missed her gas meter by inches.
The driver in that crash was injured but survived, she said.
Lane called the winding section of Main Street she lives on a “bad road.”
“Everyone of us here have had vehicles in our yard,” she said.