Rollover results in minor injuries
When the car in front of him swerved into oncoming traffic, then onto the shoulder of Arkansas Highway 340, Brett Thomas could not belive it.
Driving from the Bella Vista unit of the Boys and Girls Club, where he works as facilities manager, toward Town Center on Wednesday, Thomas was on an uneventful trip he’s made many time before.
Then the car swerved going into the corner near Cannock Lane.
“The car went onto the shoulder, and (jumped) ramped on that street (Cannock Lane),” Thomas said. “She went airborne a long way, hit, and started rolling over. Then the car tipped up, like it was going to flip, but then fell back down.” It came to rest unside down.
Thomas stopped and ran to the car.
Deep gouge marks in the ditch showed here the Subaru hammered into the soil during the roll. A mangled sign pole marked where a curve sign stood moments before. The sign was on the hillside by the car.
Looking inside, he saw a woman splayed out into upside down car.
“I opened the door, but wasn’t going to crawl in — then she started moving,” Thomas said. So he crawled into the back seat.
“She was bloody. I kept trying to tell her to not move, to hold still, but she wouldn’t,” he said. Airbags had deployed in the front see and along the sides of the car.
Diana Roberts-Kidd — who Thomas said appeared to not be wearing a seat belt — crawled into the back seat, then out the open door.
When paramedics arrived they had her sit on the ambulance’s rear step as they evaluated her. Ten minutes later, EMS personnel helped her into the ambulance for a ride to be treated at an area hospital.
Bella Vista Police Officer J.D. Jordan said that Roberts-Kidd, who lives in Bella Vista, experienced some type of medical situation that caused her to lose control of her car, a 2015 Subaru Outback.