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Single Vehicle Accident Report on Highway 88 |
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Thursday, 27 September 2007 |
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A single vehicle accident on Highway 88
Wednesday afternoon resulted in the car rolling about 30 feet down an
embankment and trapping the 86 year old female driver. Witnesses said the car
was traveling east near Tabeau
Road when for an unknown reason it served off the
road, through trees and over the bank. Another driver traveling the same part
of the roadway told TSPN that she honked her horn when she saw the car begin to
swerve, but it continued over the shoulder and down the hill. Traffic was closed
to one lane for a period of time at Frontier Mini-Mart during the lengthy rescue
operation by Amador
County’s volunteer first
responders from the Amador Fire Protection District and CALFIRE crews. As an AirMed
2 helicopter stood waiting at the Pine Grove camp, Battalion 10 and CalFire
crews fire worked in difficult conditions to extricate the victim. She was airlifted
from Pine Grove Camp Helispot to Mercy
San Juan Hospital
in Sacramento. The
CHP is investigating if a possible medical situation prior to the accident was
the actual cause of the accident.
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