A woman escaped serious injury after she lost control of her vehicle and struck a hydro pole on Lockhart Road just west of Yonge Street Wednesday afternoon.
The woman was able to exit her Hyundai on her own, enough though the impact of the crash nearly snapped the pole in half. Hydro crews were called to the scene to replace the severely damaged pole.
A witness told the Innisfil Journal the car was all over the road just before the 2:15 p.m. crash.
“I was two or three cars behind her and you could see that she was driving erratic,” Jean McGinley said. “The car right behind her managed to pass her when she went over to the shoulder, then she went right back over to the middle again and then back again. She hit the ditch and then she hit the pole.”
The car bounced off the pole, spun around and landed upright about six feet away.
When McGinley went to help, the woman told her she was not injured.
“She denied that she had been driving erratically,” McGinley added.
Paramedics assisted the woman, who was wearing a bathrobe, out of the vehicle and into an ambulance.
South Simcoe Police officers are investigating the single-car crash.
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