PALMDALE – A 91-year-old driver escaped with just minor injuries Wednesday after she drove her car over a freeway shoulder and landing upside down in a 99 Cents Only store parking lot.
The accident happened around 11:40 a.m. on Antelope Valley (14) Freeway, just south of the Rancho Vista exit, according to California Highway Patrol officer Gil Hernandez.
He said the woman was driving a 2001 Mercury northbound, in an unknown lane, at about 65 miles per hour.
“For an unknown reason, she made an unsafe turning movement to the right, left the main portion of the freeway and went down the embankment,” Hernandez said.
He said the car struck a chain link fence during the tumble and then landed on its roof.
“Citizens that were in the area heard the collision and went to her rescue,” Hernandez said.
Day laborers, German Mejorada Arrollo and Raul Zavala, said they saw the car fly over the freeway and land upside down.
The men said they first called 9-1-1 and then rushed to help the elderly driver.
“They cut her seat belt off and freed her from the vehicle,” Hernandez said. “They pulled her out and waited for emergency personnel.”
Hernandez said the woman was transferred to Antelope Valley Hospital for minor to moderate injuries, abrasions and complaints of pain, but is expected to recover.
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Hello kitty says
OLD OLD PEOPLE NEED TO HAVE THERE LICENSE REVOKED
IRRITATED ! says
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Heartless postings by heartless people, probably just young, ignorant and immature.
Adam Chant says
. There is an obvious comment to be made about this shopping center and the presence of day laborers, but they may have saved her life and while one may disagree with the situation I’m glad there were people there to help.
Desert RAT says
What would you prefer, day laborers or compton transplant thugs? Really…….
J. Ripper says
I have never been accosted by a day laborer begging for handouts or asking to “wash” my windshield, in that parking lot or any other. Those people are looking for WORK, to make an honest living. You can make presumptive comments about most of them being illegal status and therefore unemployable above the table, which is why they’re hanging out there as day laborers, but they are not accosting me or otherwise causing any problems at all.
Despite Target’s policy of prohibiting soliciting, I have been panhandled in the parking lot at the West Palmdale store only what, a half mile away. At least 2 or 3 times in as many months perhaps, recently — it has definitely picked up just since the beginning of this year. And although I’ve never been attacked or threatened by a panhandler, I do consider it much more of a potential threat to my personal safety when a stranger approaches me and is within close proximity of my personal space, asking me for something, than day laborers hanging out in the same parking lot, minding their own business.
Shunnon Thomas says
I am confidant that her driving days have just ended.
FUNNY says
Start the car there’s a sale at the 99 Cents Only store
Ashley, says
wait why does the city need to pay because people can’t drive?
FUNNY says
I ran into the wall i think its time we stop building walls in this town
Raebekkah says
It was a accident!!! Have a heart!
Mrs M says
Thank God this woman wasn’t killed. Perhaps she was blinded by the sun and judged incorrectly for the offramp. But isn’t it about time a barrier wall be put up? There was a fatality in almost that same spot just a few years ago, wasn’t there?