SAFETY RESTRAINTS HELP PREVENT MORE SERIOUS INJURY IN TRAFFIC CRASH NORTH OF CHEMULT (PHOTO)
Posted: July 16th, 2010 8:46 AM
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Safety restraints, and a little luck, are credited by an Oregon State Police (OSP) trooper for helping prevent more serious injuries to a La Pine-area woman after she fell asleep while driving early Friday morning and crashed into trees bordering Highway 97 about four miles north of Chemult.
According to OSP Senior Trooper Joe Smith, on July 16, 2010 at approximately 4:40 a.m., JUVELINE RAMOS CRAIG, age 38, was driving northbound on Highway 97 near milepost 199 when she reportedly fell asleep. Her vehicle crossed the southbound lane onto soft shoulder, over-corrected back onto and off the southbound lane into the ditch. After traveling off the highway, the vehicle squeezed between two trees before coming to rest on its passenger side against another tree. The top of her vehicle was smashed down as it passed through the trees.
CRAIG was properly restrained and suffered minor injuries not requiring transport to a hospital. She was treated by Chemult EMS and rode home with her husband who came to the scene.
Photograph Source: Oregon State Police
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