Woman receives minor injuries in rollover crash

A 25-year-old Port Burwell woman needed to be cut from the wreckage of her car by firefighters after it went airborne and rolled several times on Vienna Line east of Sawmill Road in the early afternoon of Sunday, Dec. 7.

Elgin County Ontario Provincial Police Constable Troy Carlson said officers responded to a report of a single-vehicle rollover at 12:08 p.m.

When officers arrived, they found a 2001 silver four-door Honda Civic had been eastbound on Vienna Line when it drove onto the right gravel shoulder.

“Upon coming in contact with the gravel shoulder the vehicle then veered to the right and entered the ditch colliding with an embankment over a culvert,” Const. Carlson said. “The vehicle then went airborne and crashed onto the front lawn of a nearby home after the vehicle rolled several times.”

The driver had to be extracted from the vehicle by Malahide volunteer firefighters.

Const. Carlson said she was airlifted to hospital.

The driver was initially listed in stable condition with non-life-threatening injuries and later that evening police confirmed that the driver had been released from hospital after treatment for minor injuries.

Vienna Line was re-opened to traffic at about 3:20 p.m.

“Police continue to investigate the cause of the collision,” Const. Carlson said.