Vehicle goes off snow-covered road, down embankment

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A 34-year-old Indianapolis woman was taken to a hospital on Jan. 30 after the vehicle she was riding in slid off a snow-covered road and down an embankment, rolling multiple times.

Brown County Sheriff’s Deputy Nicholson Briles responded to the crash on Bear Wallow Hill Road. The driver, 54-year-old Monica Walters of Brown County, and her passenger, Amanda Blades of Indianapolis, had been helped out of their inverted vehicle and were being looked at by EMS personnel, an accident report states.

Walters told Briles she was driving north on Bear Wallow Hill Road down a large hill. As she approached the curve in the road, she continued to pick up speed from the incline. She said she tried to slow the vehicle by downshifting, but that did not work and she began to brake. As she braked, the vehicle began to slide and she thought she was going to strike a telephone pole on the west side of the road. She missed the pole and went down the embankment, according to the affidavit.

When the vehicle stopped rolling, Walters said she was able to find her phone and call 911.

Blades was taken to Johnson Memorial Health due to pain in her shoulder. Walter was not injured. Both women were wearing their seat belts.

The vehicle was towed.

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