Friday, January 16, 2015

PICKUP TRUCK OVERTURNED ON WARD MOUNTAIN ROAD IN ROME, GEORGIA AFTER HITTING A DITCH. DRIVER WAS INJURED.



PICKUP TRUCK OVERTURNED ON WARD MOUNTAIN ROAD IN ROME, GEORGIA AFTER HITTING A DITCH.  DRIVER WAS INJURED.



Friday, January 16, 2015 12:14 am


ROME, GEORGIA


A Kingston woman who had to be extricated from her overturned pickup truck after a crash on Ward Mountain Road was still at Floyd Medical Center late Thursday, according to hospital officials.


FMC spokesman Dan Bevels said Helen Robinson was being treated in the hospital’s emergency room late Thursday.


According to Floyd County police spokesman Jerome Poole:


Robinson, 57, of Kingston, had to be extricated from her black 1992 GMC pickup after it flipped in the 1200 block of Ward Mountain Road.


Poole said Robinson was driving south when she lost control of the truck.


“She wasn’t quite sure how it happened,” said Poole. “Somehow she lost control of the vehicle while she was traveling up the hill and hit the ditch. The vehicle flipped over.”


An “alert and talking” Robinson was trapped in the cab of her pickup for nearly 30 minutes while Rome-Floyd firefighters worked to free her.


She was then taken to Floyd Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries, said Poole.