DATE: Wednesday, July 2, 1997               TAG: 9707020562

SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B7   EDITION: FINAL 

SOURCE: STAFF REPORT 

DATELINE: CHESAPEAKE                        LENGTH:   32 lines

WRECK TRAPS WOMAN IN CAR FOR TWO HOURS IN CHESAPEAKE

Rescuers worked for two hours Tuesday to pull an 82-year-old woman from her mangled car after it was hit by a truck when she apparently failed to stop at an intersection.

The woman, whose name was not released by police, was listed in serious condition Tuesday afternoon.

According to police, at around 10:30 a.m., the woman, who was driving a two-door Chevrolet sedan, was traveling south on Rodgers Street when she failed to stop at a stop sign at the intersection with Chesapeake Drive.

A pick-up truck hauling a utility trailer was traveling eastbound on Chesapeake Drive when it broadsided the Chevrolet on its passenger side. During the collision, the car traveled across the intersection, where it came to rest against a Virginia Power utility pole.

As a result of the damage to the car, it took rescue workers two hours to get the woman out before she was taken to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital for treatment. ILLUSTRATION: Photo

BOBBY MATTHEWS/Tidewater Fire Photographers Association

For two hours Tuesday, rescuers worked to free an 82-year-old woman

from her car, after it collided with a truck at a Chesapeake

intersection. The woman was in serious condition at Sentara Norfolk

General Hospital. KEYWORDS: ACCIDENT TRAFFIC INJURIES

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