WOODSTOCK – A Bethel woman escaped serious injury on Route 26 Friday when the force of a rollover broke her car’s front seat and threw her into the back seat.
Oxford County Sheriff Sgt. Tim Holland said the back seat saved Shania York, 29, from serious injury.
“She’s very lucky,” Holland said. “Her seat belt was on, but the impact actually broke down the front seat. She slid underneath the seat belt and flew into the back seat. If the back seat was down she could have been ejected.”
“She would have gone right through a window,” he said.
York was heading north on Route 26 about three miles from the West Paris-Woodstock town line. Holland said she tried to pass two trucks in front of her.
He said she couldn’t see around the trucks and when she pulled into the left lane a southbound car came up quickly on her.
“She had time to pull back in,” Holland said. “But she panicked and overcorrected.”
York slid off the road toward a ditch, became airborne, flipped, knocked down a sapling and then landed in the center of the ditch facing southward.
Her 2000 Jeep Cherokee was totaled.
She was treated at Stephens Memorial Hospital and discharged.
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